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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
(1890-1960) Russian writer. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a poet and novelist, famous for "Doctor Zhivago." He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, but was forced to renouce the prize.
Nobel Prize in Literature
By the terms of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's will (1896), the Nobel Prize for Literature is given to the person who has produced "the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency" in the field of literature.