Boris Pasternak

In another line of service, he participated in smear campaigns against "anti-Soviet" writers such as Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Russia's Ultimate Opportunist? 2009

Critics frequently suggested that others from the new school, such as Boris Pasternak's protege Andrey Voznesensky, also born in 1933, were better poets.

1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

It contains the lines Owen wrote in his pocketbook, and soon had translations in many other languages, including French, by André Gide, and Russian, by Boris Pasternak.

Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian Jack 2011

A year later, Camus further angered Soviet authorities when he publicly supported the Russian author Boris Pasternak, a fellow Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, a work banned by Stalin.

Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper 2011

He often relates to people through provenance—his favorite schoolmaster was Wordsworth's grandson; his mother studied Russian with Boris Pasternak's sister; his family was granted its timely exit visas by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's nephew.

An Auction Life, Self-Appraised Maxwell Carter 2011

In 1958, Arnold writes a letter to the party urging them not to denounce Boris Pasternak's Dr Zhivago, "a work of great genius by a man of extraordinary intelligence and honesty".

What MI5's records on my father tell us about the uses of surveillance | Martin Kettle 2011

It's a good season for translations -- look for an exciting new translation of Doctor Zhivago by the acclaimed team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, to finally give Boris Pasternak his due in the English language, and for Susan Bernofsky's translation of the German author Jenny Erpenbeck.

Anis Shivani: The Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010 2010

It's a good season for translations -- look for an exciting new translation of Doctor Zhivago by the acclaimed team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, to finally give Boris Pasternak his due in the English language, and for Susan Bernofsky's translation of the German author Jenny Erpenbeck.

Anis Shivani: The Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2010 2010

I would like to believe that in all totalitarian systems there exist men like Boris Pasternak who won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature and declined the honor to remain ensconced with and continue suffering the pain of the Russian people.

Yoani Sanchez: An Imprisoned Journalist Blogs From Inside Castro's Gulag 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Dave Summers wrote poetry throughout his life and learned Russian well enough to produce translations of the poems of Boris Pasternak and Alexander Blok.

Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009