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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich - 2 dictionary results

Pas⋅ter⋅nak

[pas-ter-nak; Russ. puh-styir-nahk]
–noun
Bo⋅ris Le⋅o⋅ni⋅do⋅vich [bawr-is, bohr-, bor-; Russ. buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] , 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
Pas·ter·nak     (pās'tər-nāk', pə-styĭr-näk')  Pronunciation Key 
Russian writer whose Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel of disillusionment with the Russian Revolution, was banned by Soviet authorities. He was forced to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature.
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