Is this accurate?

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  Pasternak accepted the prize when he heard he had won and his family 
has long since collected it.

Lewis
> 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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