Descendant of Doctor Zhivago author loses copyright court case
by Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#653X0)
Anna Pasternak alleged Lara Prescott copied elements of her book about her great uncle Boris's lover
A descendant of the Doctor Zhivago author, Boris Pasternak, has lost a claim for copyright infringement against the writer of a novel about the publication of the Russian epic.
Anna Pasternak claimed seven chapters in Lara Prescott's work of historical fiction, The Secrets We Kept (TSWK), copied elements from her own book Lara, a 2016 biography of her great uncle's lover Olga Ivinskaya.
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