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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1958 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1890s (65) 1890 (4) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Asia (96) Russia (24) Moscow (7) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1960s (49) 1960 (3) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Asia (33) Russia (15) Peredelkino (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) B (24) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) P (41) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Christianity (158) Eastern Orthodox (4) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 69 (28) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Writers and Editors (101) Writers and Authors (101) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Asia (244) Middle East (197) Israel (197) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Asia (83) Russia (27) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Asia (71) Russia (19) Moscow (15) Moscow State University (13) Alumni (7) Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Marburg (10) University of Marburg (10) Alumni (6) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards M-N (333) M (172) Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (3) Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (8) complete name: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak nobel prize: literature award year: 1958 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 was awarded to Boris Leonidovich Pasternak "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts birth name: Борис Исаакович Пастернак given name: Boris family name: Pasternak occupation: writer occupation: poet occupation: playwright occupation: translator occupation: pianist occupation: novelist notable work: Doctor Zhivago description: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderon and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. Outside Russia, Pasternak is best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Due to the novel's independent-minded stance on the socialist state, Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which both humiliated and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were later to accept it in his name in 1988. pronunciation: (/ˈpæstərˌnæk/; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к; IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak]) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1958/summary/> date birth: 1890 date death: 1960 usual name: Boris Pasternak
