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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Gender: Male

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

📅 8 October 1970

The Nobel committee recognized Solzhenitsyn for his writing on Soviet prison camps and state repression. Soviet authorities prevented him from travelling to Stockholm; the award brought testimony...