What is Boris Pasternak?
{{Infobox writer | name = Boris Pasternak | image =Boris Pasternak 1959 photo.jpg | caption = | imagesize = 150px | birth_name = Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|10 February|1890|29 January}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|5|30|1890|2|10|df=y}} | death_place = [[Peredelkino]], [[USSR]] | nationality = Russian, Soviet | occupation = Poet, writer | notableworks = ''My Sister, Life'', ''The Second Birth'', ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' | awards = {{awd|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|1958}} }} '''Boris Leonidovich Pasternak''' <ref>Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к</ref> ({{OldStyleDate|10 February|1890|29 January}}{{spaced ndash}}30 May 1960) was a [[Russia]]n poet, novelist, and literary translator. His parents were [[Jew]]ish Ukrainians. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology ''My Sister, Life'', is one of the most [[Influence|influential]] collections ever published in the [[Russian language]]. Furthermore, Pasternak's translations of [[Play (theatre)|plays]] by [[Goethe]], [[Schiller]] and [[Shakespeare]] are deeply popular with Russian audiences. Outside Russia, Pasternak is best known as the author of ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'', a novel which takes place between the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]] and the [[Second World War]]. Due to its independent minded stance on the [[Socialism|socialist]] state, ''Doctor Zhivago'' was refused publication in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]]. The typescript of ''Doctor Zhivago'' was smuggled out of the country to [[Milan]] and published in 1957.<ref>During Soviet times, copies of banned publications were spread through the Soviet Union by multiple typescript copies. The practice was called ''samisdat'', a key method of dissidents in the Soviet Union.</ref> Pasternak was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] the following year, an event which humiliated and enraged the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. In the midst of a massive campaign against him by the CPSU and the