Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of
Cancer Ward and
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich has passed away.
A great loss to Russian literature, especially as Solzhenitsyn was willing to stand up to the Soviet authorities to see his books were published, and served time in the gulags, as well as Exile, as a result.
Very probably the best Russian fiction writer of the 20th century.
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