LITERATURE: Boris Pasternak 1958 - Lochem- the Netherlands
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The Lochem community honours 6 Nobel Laureates by naming streets after them. The Pasternakweg is in honour of Boris Pasternak, the 1958 winner of the Nobel peace literature prize.
Waymark Code: WM1197B
Location: Gelderland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 09/10/2019
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In 1958 Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for writing Doctor Zhivago, but the government did not allow him to accept the prize. The Soviet authorities called the prize “a political act against the Soviet Union. Intimidated by a struggle from the Writers Union, Pasternak eventually "voluntarily" abandoned the prize. On October 25, 1958, he sent another telegram to the Swedish Academy in which he stated to be Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. On 29 October, however, he again sent a telegram in which he stated that on closer inspection he refused the "undeserved" prize, "taking into account the meaning given to it in society".
In 1958 Pasternak published his "Autobiographical essay". Undermined by the smear campaign, he died of lung cancer in 1960. In the Soviet Union they were just about to deprive him of his citizenship and to banish him abroad.
In 1987 Pasternak finally received full reparation in his own country, under the glassnost and perestroika policy of Mikhail Gorbachev (then Secretary General of the CPSU). Pasternak's son Yevgeni received the Nobel Prize for Doctor Zhivago in 1989 on behalf of his father.
Field of Accomplishment: Literature
Year of Award: 1958
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