Is this accurate?

[Melissa Smith]

I was wondering when I heard this, too. I know Sakharov could not 
attend, but Elena Bonner did, so I guess the lack of a representative 
is the crucial issue.


On 12/10/10 11:42 AM, Alina Israeli wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > -----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/adol
f_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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Youngstown State University
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