Author

Books by Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. He spent decades writing Doctor Zhivago and submitted it for publication in the Soviet Union in 1956; it was rejected. After it was published in Italian by Feltrinelli in 1957, the Soviet literary establishment launched a campaign against him. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 and forced under pressure to decline it. He died in 1960, never having published the novel in his own country; it appeared in the Soviet Union only in 1988, during glasnost.