Boris Pasternak - Wikipedia
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (/ ˈ p æ s t ər n æ k /; [1] Russian: Борис Леонидович Пастернак, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɨrˈnak]; [2] 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | Nobel Prize-Winning Russian ...
Oct 7, 2024 · Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he declined the honour. An epic of wandering, spiritual isolation, and love amid the harshness of the Russian.
Boris Pasternak – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, was the son of talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy’s works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Pasternak’s education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow.
Boris Pasternak | The Poetry Foundation
Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak was highly regarded in his native Russia as one of the country’s greatest post-revolutionary poets. He did not gain worldwide acclaim, however, until his only novel, Doctor Zhivago, was first published in Europe …
Boris Pasternak – Facts - NobelPrize.org
May 30, 2012 · Boris Leonidovich Pasternak. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958. Born: 10 February 1890, Moscow, Russia. Died: 30 May 1960, Peredelkino, Russia. Residence at the time of the award: USSR (now Russia) Prize motivation: “for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition”.
How Boris Pasternak Won and Lost the Nobel Prize
Oct 23, 2017 · Fifty-nine years ago today, Russian author Boris Pasternak, author of "Doctor Zhivago," was awarded the Nobel Prize. The book took a twisted and dangerous path to publication in a repressive...
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich - Encyclopedia.com
(1890 – 1960), poet, writer, translator. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was the most prominent figure of his literary generation, a great poet deeply connected with his age. His work unfolded during a period of fundamental changes in Russian cultural, social, and political history.