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Boris Pasternak

October 2022

  • Boris Paternak pictured in the late 1950s with Olga Ivinskaya (left) and their daughter Irina

    Descendant of Doctor Zhivago author loses copyright court case

    Anna Pasternak alleged Lara Prescott copied elements of her book about her great uncle Boris’s lover

July 2022

  • Julie Christie as Lara in the film Dr Zhivago

    Dr Zhivago’s heroine takes centre stage in plagiarism row

    Courtroom battle looms as author argues her book revealing inspiration for character became basis of an American novel

July 2021

  • Priscilla Johnson McMillan obituary

    Journalist, author and historian who knew both President John F Kennedy and his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

November 2020

  • Stanley Kubrick on the set of A Clockwork Orange

    Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights

    Director wrote to Boris Pasternak in late 1950s, previously unpublished material reveals

October 2020

  • 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn receives his Nobel prize for literature, awarded in 1970, after his exile from the Soviet Union.

    From the Guardian archive
    Archive, 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

    9 October 1970: Possibility that if the writer leaves Russia to collect his prize, he might never be allowed in again

May 2020

  • Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen ... Doctor Zhivago

    Would David Lean’s epic Russian-revolution romance stir my heart or leave me stone-cold? Well, all the balalaikas set my teeth on edge from the start

December 2019

  • Arthur Koestler in 1947

    Cold Warriors by Duncan White review – when novels were weapons

    This account of the cultural dimension of capitalism v communism offers a reminder that literature can unsettle the powerful

October 2019

  • 'Doctor Zhivago' film

    The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott review – an impressive debut

  • Lara Prescott

    Penguin Random House defends Zhivago novel against plagiarism claim

June 2018

  • Author Lara Prescott

    First novel inspired by CIA's Doctor Zhivago plan nets $2m book deal

    Lara Prescott’s We Were Never Here recounts how the CIA used Boris Pasternak’s novel as a propaganda tool during the cold war

September 2017

  • Omar Sharif<br>Julie Christie & Omar Sharif Film: Doctor Zhivago (USA/UK/IT 1965) Director: David Lean 22 December 1965 SSH31241 Allstar Picture Library/MGM **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Lara & Dr. Yuri Zhivago Romance, romantisch

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Can books and poetry make you happier? - books podcast

    We talk to William Sieghart and Viv Groskop about the restorative properties of literature and poetry - can reading make you happier?

September 2016

  • julie christie and omar sharif in doctor zhivago

    Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago – review

    Anna Pasternak tale of her great-uncle’s love affair with his muse would make a Hollywood tearjerker in its own right

June 2016

  • Publisher Peter Owen

    Peter Owen obituary

    Publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinners

November 2015

  • Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    Loved but not lost: David Lean’s Brief Encounter and Dr Zhivago

    Brief Encounter was laughed at by audiences when first released, and Dr Zhivago was scorned by critics. Now, argues Michael Newton, we can appreciate them as two of the greatest love stories committed to film

February 2015

  • Julie Christie and Omar Sharif in the film Doctor Zhivago.

    Doctor Zhivago musical set to open on Broadway

    British actor Tam Mutu will make his debut on the Great White Way in role made famous by Omar Sharif

January 2015

  • Boris Pasternak

    CIA's Cyrillic tweet: from Russia with love? No, it's just a Pasternak quote

    The agency tweets the line from the Doctor Zhivago author to highlight its role in disseminating the banned book throughout the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s

October 2014

  • Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in the screen version of the American civil war novel Gone with the Wind.

    Top 10s
    The top 10 civil war novels

    From Roman legions to medieval mayhem, Cavaliers and Roundheads to the crushing of ideals in the 20th century, there is fertile ground for drama in civil war, writes Robert Wilton

July 2014

  • Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in Dr Zhivago

    The Zhivago Affair review – how a novel became a weapon in the cold war

    Dr Zhivago was no masterpiece but it was at the centre of a cold war battle between the CIA and the Soviets, writes Christopher Bray

June 2014

  • Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book – review

  • 1965, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

    Was Doctor Zhivago the west's secret weapon in the cold war?

    Robert Service
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