Boris Pasternak
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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.