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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Boris Pasternak
(10 February 1890 - 30 May 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian and
Soviet poet, novelist and translator of Goethe and Shakespeare. In
Russia, Pasternak is most celebrated as a poet. My Sister Life, written
in 1917, is arguably the most influential collection of poetry published
in the Russian language in the 20th century. In the West he is best
known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy whose events span the
last period of the Russian Empire and the early days of the Soviet
Union. It was first translated and published in Italy in 1957. He helped
give birth to the dissident movement with the publication of Doctor
Zhivago.
