The 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Soviet-Russian author Boris Pasternak "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic t
"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition."
Boris Pasternak
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
…The 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Soviet-Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition." He is the second…
Boris (left) with his brother Alex; painting by their father, Leonid Pasternak
Pasternak c. 1908
Boris Pasternak in 1910, by his father Leonid Pasternak