Who wrote the novel 'Doctor Zhivago'?

Boris Pasternak wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago. Published in 1957, the sweeping work follows physician and poet Yuri Zhivago through the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, and the social upheavals that reshaped his country.

Pasternak's novel explores love, conscience, artistic freedom, faith, and the tension between private life and revolutionary politics. Its historical backdrop is important: characters experience the collapse of imperial Russia, the rise of Bolshevik power, famine, displacement, and civil conflict rather than observing those events from a distance.

Soviet authorities rejected the manuscript, so the novel was first published in Italian by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. The international controversy helped Pasternak receive the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, although he was pressured to decline the award. Doctor Zhivago is often confused with works by Mikhail Bulgakov or Anton Chekhov, but neither wrote it. The 1965 film adaptation, starring Omar Sharif, further popularized the title worldwide.