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Events on Friday 15 November 1957 1
1957Doctor Zhivago published in ItalyPasternak's novel appears abroad after Soviet suppressionBoris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago was published in Italian translation by Feltrinelli, after Soviet authorities blocked its publication at home. The book's international success contributed to Pasternak being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the following year, which Soviet pressure forced him to decline.