Wednesday 24 October 2018

Paper Chase: The ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Nobel Dust-up

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Sixty years ago today, the Swedish Academy awarded the Russian author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature, but less than a week later, under pressure from the Soviet government, Pasternak rejected the award. The story, which had more twists and turns than a Cold War-era spy novel, played out in The New York Times with one front-page story after another.

via NYT > Books https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/books/doctor-zhivago-boris-pasternak-nobel-prize.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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