Boris Pasternak

Also known as Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Russian writer (1890–1960)

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Boris Pasternak was a writer, poet, translator, and novelist born in Moscow in 1890. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. His notable work is the novel Doctor Zhivago. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also awarded the Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" and the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

He studied at Moscow State University, the Faculty of Law, the University of Marburg, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Imperial Moscow University, and was a student of Hermann Cohen. Pasternak spoke German and Russian. He was the son of Leonid Pasternak and had a sibling named Alexander Pasternak. He had two children and was in an unmarried partnership with Olga Ivinskaya.

Pasternak died of lung cancer in Peredelkino on May 30, 1960, from natural causes. His birth name was Boris Isaakovich Posternak, and his name in his native language was Борис Леонидович Пастернак. His works are described by sources such as UbuWeb and he is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 22

Top works

Adaptierbares Kernsystem zur Interpretation von Zeichnungen
Doctor Zhivago Movie Edition
Doctor Zhivago Volume One
La Fanciullezza di Zenja Ljuvers (Piccola biblioteca universale)
Quan escampi

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Moscow, Russian Empire

Known for

I Invite You to My Execution — Self - Writer (archive footage)2019
Remembering Boris Pasternak — (archive footage)1990

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 781
Total plays: 3,277

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1958
“for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition”

NobelPrize.org →

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Boris
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Moscow
Place of death: Peredelkino
Father: Leonid Pasternak
Occupation: screenwriter
Educated at: Imperial Moscow University
Languages spoken: Russian
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Notable work: Doctor Zhivago
Student of: Hermann Cohen
Field of work: prose
Movement: Futurism
Instrument: piano
Image: Boris Pasternak 1958 photo.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Boris Pasternak
date of death: 1960-05-30
date of birth: 1890-01-29
topic's main category: Category:Boris Pasternak
cause of death: lung cancer
manner of death: natural causes
name in native language: Борис Леонидович Пастернак
birth name: Борис Исаакович Постернак
unmarried partner: Olga Ivinskaya
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
start of work period: 1911-00-00
end of work period: 1959-00-00
writing language: Russian
P12749: Carlos, Prince of Asturias

Sources (8)

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Boris Pasternak, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Bibliotheca Mikes International

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Encyclopedic overview

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet 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.

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