OCTOBER 23/CHESHVAN 8

1958:

Boris Pasternak won the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which was published abroad in 1957, but suppressed in the Soviet Union. He was forced to decline the award, but after Gorbachev finally allowed the "great novel of the Revolution" to be published in 1988, Pasternak's son accepted the Nobel on his father's behalf in 1989.

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