Boris Pasternak and Jean-Paul Sartre were both what?
Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( ; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к ; ] ) (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 30 May 1960) was a Soviet 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, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.
Maurice Nadeau Maurice Nadeau (21 May 1911 – 16 June 2013) was a French writer and editor. He was born in Paris. One of his well-known works, translated into several languages, is the "Histoire du surréalisme" ("The History of Surrealism"), published in French in 1944, and in an English translation by Richard Howard in the United States in 1965 and in the United Kingdom in 1968.