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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987

"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
USA
b. 1940
(in Leningrad, then USSR)
d. 1996
 
 
 
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