Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, is best-known for his novel, Doctor Zhivago, a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. 

A Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 but he didn’t go to collect the Award because the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was enraged. 

However, in 1989, Pasternak's son Yevgeny finally accepted the award on his father's behalf. 

Pasternak' is also known for his s translations of Goethe and Shakespeare.

He also wrote poetry and the very first book he published was a book of poems, My Sister was published in 1922.

I’m sharing here, a poem from that collection titled - Wind

I am no more but you live on,

And the wind, whining and complaining,

Is shaking house and forest, straining

Not single fir trees one by one

But the whole wood, all trees together,

With all the distance far and wide,

Like sail-less yachts in stormy weather

When moored within a bay they lie.

And this not out of wanton pride

Or fury bent on aimless wronging,

But to provide a lullaby

For you with words of grief and longing.

(Translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater)

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