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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

(USSR, 1940 - 1996)
Biografie
Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan.
In 1974, 1989 en 1993 was Joseph Brodsky te gast op het Poetry International festival in Rotterdam, waarvan hiernaast opnamen te horen zijn.

Lees over Joseph Brodsky op Wikipedia.

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