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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 was awarded to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".

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