Boris Pasternak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boris Pasternak

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1890

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 30-May-1960

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, pianist, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; Russian: ????´? ?????´????? ????????´?, IPA: [b?'r?is l???'n?id?v??t? p?st?r'nak]; 10 February [O.S.
29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator.
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.
Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.
Pasternak is also known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War.
Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR and the manuscript had to be secretly smuggled to Italy for publication.
Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were able to accept it in his name in 1988.
Doctor Zhivago has been part of the main Russian school curriculum since 2003.