Joseph Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly advised" to emigrate) from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity".

- Less Than One: Selected Essays 1986 non-fiction essays, russia, literary criticism en

- Selected Poems: 1968-1996 2020 poetry russia, freedom, exile en