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Also Known As	Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky
Born	May 24, 1940 • St. Petersburg • Soviet Union
Died	January 28, 1996 (aged 55) • New York City • New York
Title / Office	poet laureate (1991-1992)
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1987)
Notable Works	“A Part of Speech” • “Discovery” • “Nativity Poems” • “So Forth” • “To Urania”

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