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'''Boris Pasternak''' (1890-1960) was a [[Nobel prize]]-winning [[Russian]] [[author]] and [[poet]].
His most famous work is ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' which was disliked by [[Soviet]] authorities, but was extremely successful once smuggled out of Russia, translated into multiple languages and topping the [[New York Times]] bestsellers list. For it, he won the 1958 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], which he was forced to decline.
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