Literature 1958 Nobel Prize for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry
and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline
the prize. Biography. [eng]
Boris Pasternak Russian poet, whose novel DOKTOR ZHIVAGO brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Pasternak had to decline the honour because the protests in his home country. The novel was banned in the Soviet Union and Pasternak was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. After Doctor Zhivago had reached the West, it was soon translated into 18 languages. Pasternak was rehabilitated posthumously in 1987, which made possible the publication of his major work.
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