Is this accurate?

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  Boris Pasternak accepted the Nobel Price for Literature in a letter he 
wrote to the Nobel Committee and then for some strange reason that  only 
true Soviet People can understand he changed his mind. If you have not 
lived in the Soviet Union do not presume to understand it and yes 
sometimes it was fun.


On 12/10/2010 10:20 AM, Rachel Stauffer wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SEELANGS: Slavic&  East European Languages and Literatures list
>> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rachel Stauffer
>> Sent: 10 December 2010 14:55
>> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>> 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<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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