Anonymous ID: 024ed6 Oct. 20, 2023, 7:20 p.m. No.19773779   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3844

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Another interesting happening

10-23-1958

 

How Boris Pasternak Won and Lost the Nobel Prize

In 1958, the โ€œDoctor Zhivagoโ€ author won the Nobel Prize, but the Soviets made sure he never got it

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-boris-pasternak-won-and-lost-nobel-prize-180965368/

Pasternak had been already repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize, and it appears the worldwide buzz around his new book pushed him to the top of the list in 1958 (some researchers have claimed that the CIA manipulated the Nobel Prize committee to have it awarded to Pasternak, but declassified documents show no evidence of that). His prize was announced on October 23, 1958, with the committee citing "his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition."