BORIS Leonidovich PASTERNAK won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. -- the Nobel Prize committee. Pasternak had to decline the honor because of the protests in his home country. Doctor Zhivago became an international bestseller and was translated into 18 languages but circulated only in secrecy and translation in Russia. In 1987 the Union of Soviet Writers posthumously reinstated Pasternak, a move that gave his works a legitimacy they had lacked in the Soviet Union since his expulsion from the writers' union in 1958 and that finally made possible the publication of Doctor Zhivago in the Soviet Union. Pasternak's son accepted his father's Nobel Prize medal at a ceremony in Stockholm in 1989.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780151832781 |
| ISBN 10 | 0151832781 |
| Title | Writers in Russia, 1917-1978 |
| Author | Max Hayward |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
| Year published | 1983-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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