The story behind the novel "Doctor Zhivago", written by Boris Pasternak who won the Nobel Prize for Literature shortly after the novel's publication in the West.The story behind the novel "Doctor Zhivago", written by Boris Pasternak who won the Nobel Prize for Literature shortly after the novel's publication in the West.The story behind the novel "Doctor Zhivago", written by Boris Pasternak who won the Nobel Prize for Literature shortly after the novel's publication in the West.