Nobel laureate
Boris Pasternak — Nobel Prize in Literature 1958
“for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition”
Prize motivation
“for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition”
The Swedish Academy awarded Boris Pasternak the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition.
Other laureates of the 1950s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).