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Events on Thursday 23 October 1958 1
1958Pasternak forced to decline Nobel PrizeSoviet pressure follows Doctor Zhivago awardBoris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel "Doctor Zhivago," but Soviet authorities pressured him into declining it under threat of expulsion from the country. His son accepted the prize on his behalf in 1989.