Is this accurate?

[Rachel Stauffer]

Right! Thanks! Silly oversight on my part.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Simon Beattie <Simon at simonbeattie.co.uk>wrote:

> Yes, but Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, not the
> Peace
> Prize.  I presume that's the distinction they are trying to make.
>
> Simon
>
>
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>
> A New York Times
> article<
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/world/europe/11nobel.html?_r=1&hp>
> today
> concerning the awarding of the Nobel Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo says:
>
>
> *"For the first time in 75 years*, no representative of the winner was
> allowed to make the trip to receive the peace medal, a diploma and the $1.5
> million check that comes with it.
>
> The last time that happened *was in 1935*, when
> Hitler<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/adolf_hi
> tler/index.html?inline=nyt-per<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/adolf_hi%0Atler/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
> >prevented
> that year's winner, Count Carl von Ossietzky, who was imprisoned
> in a concentration camp, and indeed anyone from Germany, from attending the
> ceremony..."
>
>
> But did Pasternak attend the ceremony in 1958? We know he refused the
> prize,
> but did he also fail to attend the ceremony? Just wondering if the NY Times
> has the facts straight here. If so, can anyone explain?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rachel Stauffer
>
> University of Virginia
>
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