Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Boris Lenodovich was a Russian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 but turned it down because of the threat from Soviet government to strip him of his citizenship. His son in 1989 received the award in his place. He is best known for Doctor Zhivago in the Western world but in Russia he was more known for his poetry. Nobel Prize website state he won the award "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition".