DID YOU KNOW?

NOT EVERYONE regards a nobel prize as an honour. In 1958, Boris Pasternak was forced by the soviet authorities to refuse the literature prize. They objected again when it was offered to Alexandr solzhenitsyn in 1970. He accepted and four years later was exiled from the Soviet Union.

Boris Pasternak (left) and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (small pic)