Is this accurate?

[Alina Israeli]

Technically Pasternak refused the Prize, as did Sartre. So one would  
not expect them to be at the award ceremony.

Dec 10, 2010, в 10:13 AM, Simon Beattie написал(а):

> 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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> Subject: [SEELANGS] Is this accurate?
>
> 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>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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Alina Israeli
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