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About Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.

Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.

Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy and was first published there in 1957, as part of a CIA operation to undermine the Soviet Union in the eyes of its citizens.

Boris Pasternak is best known for Doctor Zhivago.

On FindMyTBR we track 2 books by Boris Pasternak, 1 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Doctor Zhivago. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.