Pasternak was born in Moscow on 10 February (Gregorian), 1890 (29 January, Julian) into a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family. īoris (left) with his brother Alex painting by their father, Leonid Pasternak Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003. In 1989, Pasternak's son Yevgeny finally accepted the award on his father's behalf.

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. 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 the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.

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. Lydia Pasternak Slater (sister) Yevgeny Pasternak (son)īoris Leonidovich Pasternak ( / ˈ p æ s t ər n æ k/ Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, IPA: 10 February 1890 – ) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. My Sister, Life, The Second Birth, Doctor Zhivago

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