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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958

"for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition"
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
USSR
b. 1890
d. 1960
 
 
 
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