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    Russian writer (1890-1960)

    Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, 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. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago, a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy and was first published there in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize. In 1989, Pasternak's son Yevgeny finally accepted the award on his father's behalf. Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003. Wikipedia

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    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.. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in ...
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    Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (born January 29 [February 10, New Style], 1890, Moscow, Russia—died May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, near Moscow) 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 ...
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    B oris 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. Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up the study of musical composition ...
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    Boris Pasternak grew up in Moscow. His father was an artist and professor, his mother a concert pianist. Pasternak initially decided to become a composer, but eventually abandoned music to study philosophy in Germany. He later returned to Moscow, became an author, and in 1936 moved into his dacha in Peredelkino, southwest of Moscow.
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    Boris Leonidovich Pasternak [1] (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 - 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. His parents were Jewish Ukrainians. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister, Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language.Furthermore, Pasternak's translations of plays by Goethe, Schiller and ...
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    PASTERNAK, BORIS LEONIDOVICH (1890-1960), Soviet Russian poet and novelist. A son of the painter Leonid *Pasternak, the younger Pasternak ultimately became one of the very few Soviet writers whose work is essentially Christian in spirit. Born and educated in Moscow, he also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany.
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    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. Banned in Russia as anti-Soviet, Pasternak's controversial prose work was hailed as a literary ...
  10. britannica.com

    Boris Pasternak, (born Feb. 10, 1890, Moscow, Russia—died May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, near Moscow), Russian poet and prose writer. He studied music and philosophy and after the Russian Revolution of 1917 worked in the library of the Soviet commissariat of education. His early poetry, though avant-garde, was successful, but in the 1930s a gap ...

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