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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970

"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
USSR
b. 1918
d. 2008
 
 
 

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