Soviet poet and novelist Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. (Kremlin authorities succeeded in pressuring Pasternak into relinquishing the award, however.)
Soviet poet and novelist Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. (Kremlin authorities succeeded in pressuring Pasternak into relinquishing the award, however.)