Russian and American poet, who also wrote in English, translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The first ones from 1956-1957 have survived. literary attempts, although, as he himself said, he started writing at the age of eighteen. Boris Sluckis, Marina Tsvetajeva, Osip Mandelštam, Yevgenijs Rein, Ana Akhmatova had a great influence on his literary formation. Persecuted by the Soviet authorities since 1963, when the newspaper Вечерний Ленинград published an article denigrating his poetry, although only one of the four quotes was from Brodsky himself, and that was taken out of context. in 1964 February 13 accused of idleness, convicted and exiled to the village of Norinskaya (Archangelsk region). he had his first heart attack in the cell. His trial became the beginning of the human rights movement. Only thanks to the protests of the Soviet intelligentsia and the Western press in 1965. released from exile in December, after the transcript of the trial and a dozen of Brodsky's poems were printed in New York. His work until 1988 There was almost no printing in the USSR, poems were spread by self-publishing.
in 1972 May 15 summoned to the Visas and Registration Sub-section, he was offered the choice of prisons and psychiatric hospitals or emigration. June 4 he flew to Vienna, participated in the International Poetry Festival, and a month later received an invitation to take up the position of visiting professor at the University of Michigan, he also taught at other universities in the United States. Since 1981 lived in New York. At first, his poetry was translated into English, and in 1986 "Less than one", a collection of poetry written in English, was published, which was recognized as the best book of the year.
Brodsky's poetry and prose are dominated by existential, ethical, philosophical and religious issues. The poems are characterized by intellectual irony, masterful form, and are full of cultural images.
Wrote plays (Marmuras, 1982), autobiographical and literary essays, literary criticism articles, mostly in English.
In 1966-1970 he visited Lithuania several times. There are Lithuanian motifs in the works (the cycle of poems "Lietuviškas divertismas" in 1971, published in Lithuanian in 1976 and 1989), the poem "Lituvian Noctiurnas", written in 1973-1983, published in Lithuanian in 1997). Translated Tom Venclova's poems into Russian.
