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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( / ˈpæstərnæk /; [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.
May 26, 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.
On 23 October 1958, Boris Pasternak was announced as the winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. The citation credited Pasternak's contribution to Russian lyric poetry and for his role in, "continuing the great Russian epic tradition".
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 in 1958, just two years before the author’s death.
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.
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”
Boris Pasternak. 1890 –. 1960. Read poems by this poet. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, the oldest child of painter Leonid Pasternak and pianist Roza Kaufman, was born in Moscow on February 10, 1890. His father taught art at the school which essentially served as Pasternak’s childhood home.
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...
Jun 12, 2024 · Doctor Zhivago, novel by Boris Pasternak, published in Italy in 1957. This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak’s.
Boris Pasternak was a great Russian poet, the author of the novel Doctor Zhivago, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. The son of the artist Leonid Pasternak and his wife Rosalia, a gifted pianist, Boris was brought up in an environment rich in art and music.
