# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:24.070Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Leningrad in 1940, Iosif Brodsky learned his craft under the suspicion of Soviet authorities who eventually expelled him in 1972. W. H. Auden helped him settle in the United States, where he taught at Mount Holyoke, Yale, Columbia, Cambridge, and Michigan. The Nobel committee awarded him its literature prize in 1987 for "an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." He became U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991. Moscow State University's Andrey Ranchin calls him "the only modern Russian poet whose body of work has already been awarded the honorary title of a canonized classic" — an exceptional phenomenon for a contemporary writer. Scholars place him among the century's most influential Christian poets alongside Eliot, Mandelstam, and his one-time mentor Anna Akhmatova, though Brodsky himself said in 1972, "I consider myself a Christian. Not a good one but I try to be."