Prof. Josif Aleksandrowicz BRODSKI
Country of residence: the USA
Birth date: 24 May 1940
Date of death: 28 January 1996
Award date: 22 June 1993
USil Senate resolution date: 19 April 1993
Application date: 12 January 1993
Applying unit: Council of the Faculty of Philology
Russian poet and prose writer (poems: A part of Speech, Roman elegy, End of century, Stop in the desert, Venetian stanzas, To Urania; plays: Marbles; essays: Less than One, 20 sonnets to Mary Stuart). Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1987). Philosopher of word and speech, a friend of Poland and the Polish, defender of individual freedom and its ethical perseverance.
