BORIS PASTERNAK (1890–1960) won the Nobel prize in literature in 1958. He is best known in the West for his novel Doctor Zhivago.
MARK RUDMAN was born in New York City where he now lives with his wife and son. He is an Adjunct Professor at NYU. His books include
Rider, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1994;
Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations, and
The Couple (2001). Rudman also received the Max Hayward Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University for
My Sister—Life.
BOHDAN BOYCHUK is a prominent Ukrainian poet who critiqued and guided Rudman's version of Pasternak.