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On October 23, 1958, The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Soviet writer Boris Pasternak "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition." Pasternak was pleased and flattered to win the award, and he sent the following telegram to the Nobel Foundation: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed." Official Soviet circles, however, were not so pleased...
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Oh...what a story. I was convinced he'd hold out. Of course, it's no blame to him that he didn't in the end, but how accurate a prediction the first email turned out to be.
Posted by: looby | November 11, 2007 at 10:35 AM