Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (eða Jósef Brodsky) (24. maí 1940 - 28. janúar 1996) fæddur Josíf Aleksandrovítsj Brodskíj eða Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, var rússneskt skáld, leikrita- og ritgerðarhöfundur. Joseph Brodsky fæddist í Leningrad (nú Sankti Pétursborg) í Rússlandi en fluttist til Bandaríkjanna eftir að hafa verið gerður útlægur úr Sovétríkjunum. Hann öðlaðist bandarískan ríkisborgararétt 1977. Hann fékk aldrei að hitta foreldra sína aftur, og tileinkaði þeim ritgerðarsafnið Less Than One.

Joseph Brodsky fékk Nóbelsverðlaun í bókmenntum árið 1987. Hann er grafinn í Feneyjum.

Tenglar

s r b Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum
1901–1925	Sully Prudhomme (1901) Theodor Mommsen (1902) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903) Frédéric Mistral og José Echegaray (1904) Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) Giosuè Carducci (1906) Rudyard Kipling (1907) Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908) Selma Lagerlöf (1909) Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (1910) Maurice Maeterlinck (1911) Gerhart Hauptmann (1912) Rabindranath Tagore (1913) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1914) Romain Rolland (1915) Verner von Heidenstam (1916) Karl Gjellerup og Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1918) Carl Spitteler (1919) Knut Hamsun (1920) Anatole France (1921) Jacinto Benavente (1922) William Butler Yeats (1923) Władysław Reymont (1924) George Bernard Shaw (1925)
1926–1950	Grazia Deledda (1926) Henri Bergson (1927) Sigrid Undset (1928) Thomas Mann (1929) Sinclair Lewis (1930) Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931) John Galsworthy (1932) Ívan Búnín (1933) Luigi Pirandello (1934) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1935) Eugene O'Neill (1936) Roger Martin du Gard (1937) Pearl S. Buck (1938) Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1939) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1940) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1941) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1942) Engin verðlaun voru veitt (1943) Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1944) Gabriela Mistral (1945) Hermann Hesse (1946) André Gide (1947) T. S. Eliot (1948) William Faulkner (1949) Bertrand Russell (1950)
1951–1975	Pär Lagerkvist (1951) François Mauriac (1952) Winston Churchill (1953) Ernest Hemingway (1954) Halldór Laxness (1955) Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956) Albert Camus (1957) Borís Pasternak (1958) Salvatore Quasimodo (1959) Saint-John Perse (1960) Ivo Andrić (1961) John Steinbeck (1962) Giorgos Seferis (1963) Jean-Paul Sartre (afþakkaði verðlaunin) (1964) Míkhaíl Sholokhov (1965) Shmuel Yosef Agnon og Nelly Sachs (1966) Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967) Yasunari Kawabata (1968) Samuel Beckett (1969) Aleksandr Solzhenítsyn (1970) Pablo Neruda (1971) Heinrich Böll (1972) Patrick White (1973) Eyvind Johnson og Harry Martinson (1974) Eugenio Montale (1975)
1976–2000	Saul Bellow (1976) Vicente Aleixandre (1977) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) Odysseas Elytis (1979) Czesław Miłosz (1980) Elias Canetti (1981) Gabriel García Márquez (1982) William Golding (1983) Jaroslav Seifert (1984) Claude Simon (1985) Wole Soyinka (1986) Joseph Brodsky (1987) Naguib Mahfouz (1988) Camilo José Cela (1989) Octavio Paz (1990) Nadine Gordimer (1991) Derek Walcott (1992) Toni Morrison (1993) Kenzaburō Ōe (1994) Séamus Heaney (1995) Wisława Szymborska (1996) Dario Fo (1997) José Saramago (1998) Günter Grass (1999) Gao Xingjian (2000)
2001–	V. S. Naipaul (2001) Imre Kertész (2002) J. M. Coetzee (2003) Elfriede Jelinek (2004) Harold Pinter (2005) Orhan Pamuk (2006) Doris Lessing (2007) J. M. G. Le Clézio (2008) Herta Müller (2009) Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) Tomas Tranströmer (2011) Mo Yan (2012) Alice Munro (2013) Patrick Modiano (2014) Svetlana Aleksíevítsj (2015) Bob Dylan (2016) Kazuo Ishiguro (2017) Olga Tokarczuk (2018) Peter Handke (2019) Louise Glück (2020) Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021) Annie Ernaux (2022) Jon Fosse (2023) Han Kang (2024)