"for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity."
Date
22 October 1987 (1987-10-22) (announcement)
10 December 1987 (ceremony)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by
Swedish Academy
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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The 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Russian–American poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity."[1][2][3]
^The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 nobelprize.org
^Howell Raines (23 October 1987). "Exiled Soviet Poet Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
^Seamus Heaney (8 November 1987). "Brodsky's Nobel: What the Applause Was About". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
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