Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator whose first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and became an important collection in the Russian language. He is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), set between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War, which was rejected for publication in the USSR and smuggled to Italy for its first printing as part of a CIA operation to undermine the Soviet Union in the eyes of its citizens. He was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and forced him to decline the prize; his son Yevgeny finally accepted the award on his father's behalf in 1989, and Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ... was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 - 30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
Award: Nobel Prize in Literature
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890-30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.
Award: Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890-30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.
Award: Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890-30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.
Award: Bancarella Literary Prize
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890-30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.
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Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy.
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