Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) · CatalogBoris PasternakBoris Pasternak (1890-1960) · CatalogRussian poet and novelist, author of Doctor Zhivago.Author
Boris Pasternak
1890-1960 · Russian poet and novelist, author of Doctor Zhivago
Short biography: Boris Pasternak in Great Lives
About Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) was born in Moscow to the painter Leonid Pasternak and the pianist Rosa Kaufman. He studied music and then philosophy, including a semester at Marburg, before turning to poetry; the collection My Sister, Life (1922) made him one of the leading Russian poets of his generation. Under Stalin he worked largely as a translator, producing celebrated Russian versions of Shakespeare and Goethe's Faust. Doctor Zhivago, refused publication in the Soviet Union, appeared in Italy in 1957. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, he declined it under official pressure, and he died at Peredelkino near Moscow in 1960.
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Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak
1957 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel
Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, completed in the mid-1950s and first published in Italian translation by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan in November 1957, after Soviet publishers rejected it. The English translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari appeared in 1958, the year Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.