Sunday, August 3, 2008

Passing of a Noble Prize winner

Nobel prize winning Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure. Best known for his work "Gulag Archipelago," based on his own experiences in the Soviet work camps. He was deported from the Soviet Union in 1970, but returned to Russia in 1990. He was a bold critic of both east and west.

He was 89.

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