Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners Oct 7, 2009
Afraid of Soviet retribution if he traveled to Stockholm to claim his prize, Boris Pasternak declined to accept the 1958 Prize in Literature, which he'd earned for Doctor Zhivago. The Academy refused his refusal. (CNN)
Obituary: Sergei Mikhalkov Sep 11, 2009
In between he denounced two of the country s greatest writers, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Every regime he served gave him medals. (The Economist)
Sergei Mikhalkov, 96, author of Russian national anthem Aug 28, 2009
Millions of Russians can recite lines from his other famous work -- the 1935 children's poem "Uncle Styopa,'' about an unusually tall police officer -- which is still taught in Russian kindergartens and primary schools.His contributions to serious literature were more controversial.As a functionary and later chairman of the government-regulated Soviet Writers' Union, Mr. Mikhalkov became an integral part of the propaganda machine designed to indoctrinate Soviet citizens and weed out... (Boston Globe)
Russia writer Mikhalkov, 96, dies Aug 28, 2009
As a member and chairman of the state-controlled Soviet Writers Union, Mikhalkov was part of smear campaigns against authors including Nobel Prize winners Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Associated Press news agency reports. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Europe)
61 postmodern reads Jul 25, 2009
Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" Boris Pasternak, "Dr. Zhivago" John Fowles, "The French Lieutenant's Woman". Posted by: otolythe. (Harper's Magazine)
It happened 50 years ago Apr 2, 2009
Boris Pasternak, author of the novel Doctor Zhivago, won the Nobel Prize for literature but turned it down under pressure from the Kremlin. Robert Young and Jane Wyatt won Emmies for their performances in the NBC series Father Knows Best. (Weymouth News, MA)
