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Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

posted August 4, 2008 - 12:52am
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

The Russian author and a Nobel Laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn died at the age of 89 of a stroke or a heart failure in Moscow. He was the man who was responsible for exposing Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent almost 20 years in exile.


Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm
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A great author

dr2dr - Mon, 2008-4-8 5:37 am
A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch was one of my most memorable reads.. he will be missed.

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