Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky, anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987, announced October 22, 1987. Joseph Brodsky, “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”. Joseph Brodsky: born 1940, Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).