Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; ) (30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems,
My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the
Russian language. Pasternak's translations of
stage plays by
Goethe,
Schiller,
Calderon and
Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.