Although he received acclaim as a poet with his collections Over the Barriers, Safe Conduct, and My Sister Life, he stuck to translation for decades. He chose to end his career instead of going into e
Although he received acclaim as a poet with his collections Over the Barriers, Safe Conduct, and My Sister Life, he stuck to translation for decades. He chose to end his career instead of going into exile, writing that "Leaving the motherland will equal death for me." For 10 points—who was ordered to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize, given for his negative depiction of the October Revolution in Doctor Zhivago?
Although he received acclaim as a poet with his collections Over the Barriers, Safe Conduct, and My Sister Life, he stuck to translation for decades.