Nobel laureate

Joseph Brodsky — Nobel Prize in Literature 1987

“for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”

Prize motivation

“for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”

The Swedish Academy awarded Joseph Brodsky the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.

Sources & data

  • Nobel Prize API (CC0).