Soviet Writers Honor Pasternak
The Soviet Writers Union has posthumously reinstated Boris Pasternak, who was expelled from the organization after his novel “Doctor Zhivago” won the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature, the Tass press agency said today.
The Tass announcement disclosed the latest in a series of government actions to rehabilitate Pasternak, who died in disgrace in 1960 at age 70. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, member of an official panel created to honor the writer and review his works, said earlier this month that “Doctor Zhivago” will be published in the Soviet Union for the first time in monthly installments of the literary journal Novy Mir beginning in January, 1988.
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