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, as well as the Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" and the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". He was educated at Moscow State University, the University of Marburg, and Imperial Moscow University.

He died of lung cancer in Peredelkino on May 30, 1960. His manner of death was natural causes. He was the student of Hermann Cohen and spoke German and Russian. His name in his native language was Борис Леонидович Пастернак, and his birth name was Борис Исаакович Постернак. He had two children and was unmarried partner to Olga Ivinskaya.

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 11 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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

Writing · Moscow, Russian Empire

Known for

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

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Soviet Union
Active from: 1890
Active to: 1960

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 781
Total plays: 3,277

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 15,165x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,229x

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Quotes

“Не спи, не спи, художник,Не предавайся сну.Ты – вечности заложникУ времени в плену.”
“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.”
“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.”
“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”
“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.”
“A candle burned on the table, a candle burned ... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.”

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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 →

Works in European collections

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

Bibliotheca Mikes International

~40 min read

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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