The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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

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