#OnThisDay in 1958 Boris Pasternak, author of 'Doctor Zhivago', sent a telegram accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature before declining it just four days later.
Pasternak is one of four laureates forced to decline the prize by government authorities. When he originally accepted the prize he said he was "immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."
Although Pasternak did not accept the prize, his rejection did not alter the validity of the award and he remains a Nobel Prize laureate.
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Photo: Boris Pasternak in 1959. Credit: Unknown source via Wikimedia commons.
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