Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning author has died. ITAR-Tass news agency cited his son Stepan as saying he died late Sunday of heart failure.
He was 89. Solzhenitsyn served with the Red Army in World War Two but became one of the most prominent dissidents of the Soviet era, enduring labour camps, cancer and persecution by the Soviet authorities. His major works, including "The First Circle" and "Cancer Ward", earned him the 1970 Nobel Literature Prize.
(Deutsche Welle)
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