Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89


Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

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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.

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A great author

Submitted by dr2dr on Mon, 2008-08-04 04:37.

A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch was one of my most memorable reads.. he will be missed.