1. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Winner Of The 1958 Nobel Prize In Literature boris leonidovich pasternak, a nobel Prize Laureate in Literature,at the nobel Prize Internet Archive. boris leonidovich pasternak. http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1958a.html

B ORIS L EONIDOVICH P ASTERNAK 1958 Nobel Laureate in Literature for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. (Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize.) Background Residence: USSR Book Store Books by Boris Pasternak Books about Boris Pasternak Featured Internet Links Doctor Zhivago Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links Nancy Glimpses 'Slavic Soul' in Visit to Pasternak's Grave Hungary Welcomes Dr. Zhivago Play ... Family Vacates Pasternak's Home After Losing Appeal in Soviet Court Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Background on Boris Pasternak Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Literature Peace ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

2. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Winner Of The 1958 Nobel Prize In Literature boris leonidovich pasternak, a nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1958, at the nobel Prize Internet Archive. A very brief page on the author. http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1958a.html

B ORIS L EONIDOVICH P ASTERNAK 1958 Nobel Laureate in Literature for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. (Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize.) Background Residence: USSR Book Store Books by Boris Pasternak Books about Boris Pasternak Featured Internet Links Doctor Zhivago Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links Nancy Glimpses 'Slavic Soul' in Visit to Pasternak's Grave Hungary Welcomes Dr. Zhivago Play ... Family Vacates Pasternak's Home After Losing Appeal in Soviet Court Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Background on Boris Pasternak Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Literature Peace ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

3. Index Of Nobel Laureates In Literature ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF nobel PRIZE LAUREATES IN LITERATURE. Name, Year Awarded.Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1966. Oe, Kenzaburo, 1994. pasternak, boris leonidovich, 1958. http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/alpha.html

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4. Literature 1958 The nobel Prize in Literature 1958. for his important achievement epic tradition .boris leonidovich pasternak. USSR. b.1890 d.1960. (Accepted first http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1958/

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition" Boris Leonidovich Pasternak USSR b.1890 d.1960 (Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize.) The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 Announcement Boris Pasternak Biography ... Other Resources The 1958 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature ... Peace Find a Laureate: Last modified June 16, 2000 The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation

5. Boris Pasternak - Biography boris leonidovich pasternak (18901960), born in Moscow, was the pasternak lived inPeredelkino, near Moscow, until From nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967. http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1958/pasternak-bio.html

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), born in Moscow, was the son of talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Pasternak's education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow. Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up the study of musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910. By 1912 he had renounced music as his calling in life and went to the University of Marburg , Germany, to study philosophy. After four months there and a trip to Italy, he returned to Russia and decided to dedicate himself to literature. Pasternak's first books of verse went unnoticed. With Sestra moya zhizn (My Sister Life), 1922, and Temy i variatsii (Themes and Variations), 1923, the latter marked by an extreme, though sober style, Pasternak first gained a place as a leading poet among his Russian contemporaries. In 1924 he published Vysokaya bolezn (Sublime Malady), which portrayed the 1905 revolt as he saw it, and

6. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich pasternak, boris leonidovich. pasternak. d. May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, near Moscow),Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the nobel Prize for http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/454_25.html

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Cornell CapaMagnum (b. Feb. 10 [Jan. 29, Old Style], 1890, Moscow, Russiad. May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, near Moscow), Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he declined the honour. An epic of wandering, spiritual isolation, and love amid the harshness of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the novel became an international best-seller but circulated only in secrecy and translation in his own land. Pasternak grew up in a cultured Jewish household. His father, Leonid, was an art professor and a portraitist of novelist Leo Tolstoy, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and composer Sergey Rachmaninoff, all frequent guests at his home, and of Lenin. His mother was the pianist Rosa Kaufman. Young Pasternak himself planned a musical career, though he was a precocious poet. He studied musical theory and composition for six years, then abruptly switched to philosophy courses at Moscow University and the University of Marburg (Germany). Physically disqualified for military service, he worked in a chemical factory in the Urals during World War I. After the Revolution he worked in the library of the Soviet commissariat of education. His first volume of poetry was published in 1913. In 1917 he brought out a striking second volume

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9. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English 2000. pasternak, boris leonidovich. SYLLABICATION Pas·ter·nak. PRONUNCIATION authorities.He was forced to refuse the 1958 nobel Prize for literature. http://www.bartleby.com/61/22/P0102200.html

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10. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. pasternak, boris leonidovich. (p s´t rn k´´, Rus. pasternak was awardedthe 1958 nobel Prize in Literature, which he joyfully accepted. http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Pasterna.html

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11. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak boris leonidovich pasternak 18221892. influences collection Second Birth, in whichpasternak strove toward a 1958 He is awarded the nobel Prize for Literature http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/poetpage/pasternak.html

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Poems in this Collection Improvisation/Èìïðîâèçàöèÿ Marburg/Ìàðáóðã You are in the wind, which tests with a branch.../Òû â âåòðå, âåòêîé ïðîáóþùåì... Out of Superstition/Èç ñóåâåðüÿ ... In everything, I want to reach.../Âî âñåì ìíå õî÷åòñÿ äîéòè... Timeline for B. L. Pasternak A gathering of the litterati of Russia in the 1920s. Cover of Pasternak's memoires of 1905 Pasternak giving toast in 1950s with Akhmatova to his left At Pasternak's funeral procession Born to painter Leonid Pasternak and pianist Rozaliya Kaufman in Moscow, where he lived most of his life Studies music with Scriabin Studies philosophy at Moscow University Translates Rilke Travels to Germany to study Neo-Kantianism at Marburg University with Hermann Cohen Makes debut with the Lirika poetic group Publishes first collection Twin in the Stormclouds; joins Sergei Bobrov's Futurist group Tsentrifuga; meets Mayakovsky in the spring

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Messer statt Tinte Botschaften in Baumrinde eingeritzt Indischer Lorbeerbaum auf Teneriffa February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out. Boris Pasternak Der Computergarten am 10. Februar Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidowitsch (Leonidovich) Pasternak geboren am 10. Februar 1890 in Moskau gestorben am 30. Mai 1960 in Peredelkino bei Moskau Portrait inga Schnekenburger 2001 Boris Pasternak Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke , aber auch von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe vom Deutschen ins Russische und die Werke von Shakespeare vom Englischen ins Russische..

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14. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich: Under Communist Rule encyclopediaEncyclopedia—pasternak, boris leonidovich pasternak was awardedthe 1958 nobel Prize in Literature, which he joyfully accepted. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0860259.html

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Encyclopedia Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Under Communist Rule Pasternak at first embraced the promise of the Revolution of 1917, but he came to abhor the ensuing Bolshevik restrictions on artistic freedom. He wrote two long narrative poems, Spektorsky (1926) and The Year 1905 Safe Conduct (1931) and the collection of poetry Second Birth (1932) were his last original works for many years. During the purges of the 1930s, Pasternak came under severe critical attack and, unable to publish his own poetry, devoted himself to making superb translations of classic works by Goethe, Shakespeare, and others. His survival of the purges is attributed to his translations of Georgian poets admired by Stalin. In his silence Pasternak became the hero of Russian intellectuals. His very rare public appearances were greeted with wild rejoicing. During World War II he published two new collections, On Early Trains (1942) and The Terrestrial Expanse (1945), simpler in style, which brought him fresh censure. After Stalin's death Pasternak began work on the novel Doctor Zhivago (Eng. tr. 1958; Rus. text pub. in the United States, 1959), his masterpiece in the great tradition of the Russian epic. The life of the physician and poet Yuri Zhivago, like Pasternak's own, is closely identified with the exalted and tragic upheavals of 20th-century Russia. Expressing the celebration of life characteristic of its author, the novel offended Soviet authorities by its insights into Communist society and its strain of Christian idealism.

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@import url("css/iereview.css"); Search WWW Search brothersjudd.com Home Reviews Links Blog ... Doctor Zhivago Nobel Prize Winners (1958) Author Info: Boris Pasternak Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breathtakingly serious! -Boris Pasternak Most of us are only familiar with Doctor Zhivago from the epic David Lean film version Zhivago himself, the name means "life" in Russian, is a pretty docile leading man. The story follows him as he is buffeted by the winds of change in Russia from 1903 to his death sometime after WWII. But Doctor Zhivago is understood to be semi autobiographical and to the extent that Zhivago is acted upon rather than acting himself, perhaps he is intended to convey Pasternak's own ambivalence about the role he had played by remaining in Soviet Union and continuing to work. Indeed, there is a really poignant moment in Isaiah Berlin's piece on the author , where Pasternak, near desperation, seeks to solicit Berlin's opinion on whether people believe that he has collaborated with the government because he remained in the USSR or whether they instead accept that he felt compelled to stay. In fairness to Pasternak, it should not be necessary to leave a country (as did Solzhenitsyn) or be disappeared (as was Isaac Babel) or be imprisoned (as were countless others) in order to demonstrate the legitimacy of your opposition to an evil government. To be honest, the subtlety of Pasternak's message and our increasing distance from the time when even such subtleties could prove incendiary, served to deaden the effect of a novel which already suffers from being a tad too episodic. In the final analysis, I guess I respected the book more than enjoyed it and found it more interesting as a key artifact of an age that is quickly receding from memory than compelling as a novel.

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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau NOBEL LAUREATES Below is a list of Nobel Laureates, starting with the most recent, that were either Russian or Soviet citizens at the time of their award. There is also a large number of Laureates that were born in Russia or the USSR but had relocated, either as children or far into their careers, to other countries at the time of their award. We have attempted to list the country correctly - Russia or the USSR - depending on the status of the country at the time of the laureate's birth and/or award. 2000 PHYSICS Zhores I. Alferov "for the development of semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics" Born: 1930. Vitebsk, Belorussia (then the USSR) Education: Doctor's degree in physics and mathematics 1970 at A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) Affiliation: Director of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St. Petersburg 26 Polytekhnicheskaya St. Petersburg 194021 Russian Federation

18. Links To Literature: Boris Pasternak GENERAL RESOURCES. nobel Prize Literature 1958 boris leonidovich pasternak. Photoand biography. Forced by authorities of his country to refuse the prize. http://www.linkstoliterature.com/pasternak.htm

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19. BBC - Books - Author Profile For Boris Pasternak Important works Poet and novelist boris leonidovich pasternak is best rememberedfor his epic novel, Dr Zhivago. He won the nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/pasternak/

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH SUNDAY 20th April 2003 Text only BBC Homepage Arts Books ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! surnames.. A to B C to E F to I J to L M to O P to R S to T U to Z Boris Pasternak Born: Moscow, Russia, February 10, 1890 Died: Peredelkino, Russia, May 30, 1960 Page 1 Important works: Poet and novelist Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is best remembered for his epic novel, Dr Zhivago . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an honour which he was later forced to decline by the Russian authorities, due to the harsh depiction of life under communism in Dr Zhivago Although avant-garde, Boris Pasternak's early lyrical poetry, including Twin in the Clouds Over the Barriers 1917, and My Sister Life 1922, established him as an important new voice in Russia before and during the First World War. For the ten years between 1933 to 1945 Pasternak was forbidden to publish anything at all, as the state considered his work and aims contrary to the aims of communism. Instead he made his livelihood by translating classic works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Paul Verlaine and Rainer Maria Rilke, fearing for his safety but spared during the terrifying intellectual purges of the 1930's. His autobiographical work Safe Conduct (1931) and the collection of poetry Second Birth (1932) were his last original works for some years.

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poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, the oldest child of painter Leonid Pasternak and pianist Roza Kaufman, was born in Moscow in 1890. His father taught art at the school which essentially served as Pasternak's childhood home. His parents received constant visits from prominent Moscow writers, artists, and intellectuals, including, the yet unknown Rainer Maria Rilke in 1899, whose writing greatly influenced Pasternak. In addition to his parents, Pasternak's teachers were private tutors until he entered high school in 1901, where he received a classical education. While he drew well, to the delight of his father, his first love was botany and second, music. Inspired by the composer Scriabin, who was a friend of the family, Pasternak devoted six years to the study of composition. Three finished piano pieces composed by the young poet have survived from these years. Although everyone assumed that Pasternak would become a professional musician, he was wary of his lack of technical skill. In 1909 he gave up his musical career for good when he entered the Law Faculty at Moscow University. He soon turned to philosophy, and although he appeared to be heading toward an academic career, he ultimately gave it up in 1912 to pursue his true calling: poetry. Yet his poetry and prose would always bear the mark of his youthful enthusiasms for music and philosophy.

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