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Nobel Prize

Russia · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1958–1970Date range
3Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1958

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak1958

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, for "Dr Zhivago"

1965

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov1965

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1970

Alexander Solzhenitsyn1970

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, could not receive the prize personally in Stockholm at that time, since he was afraid he would not be let back into the Soviet Union

Names involved

Alexander SolzhenitsynBoris Leonidovich PasternakMikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Provenance

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