Boris Pasternak Biography

Boris Pasternak biography

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NAME: Boris Pasternak
OCCUPATION: Author, Poet
BIRTH DATE: February 10, 1890
DEATH DATE: May 30, 1960
EDUCATION: Moscow University, University of Marburg
PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow, Russia
PLACE OF DEATH: Peredelkino, Russia
Full Name: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

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Boris Pasternak was a Russian novelist and poet who wrote the epic Dr. Zhivago.

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Boris Pasternak was a Russian poet and novelist whose Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, but it was a controversial work in Russia. Pasternak’s main livelihood was translating, and his work included renderings of William Shakespeare, among others. In 1987 the Union of Soviet Writers posthumously reinstated Pasternak, giving him legitimacy in his home country.