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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

Chad Post — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:12:50 +0000

As has already been written up Alexander Solzhenitsyn died on Sunday, supposedly after a stroke.

Solzhenitsyn is most well known for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (which was part of the first ever Reading the World promotion) and the Gulag Archipelago trilogy.

has a nice overview video on Solzhenitsyn’s life:

Solzhenitsyn, still at it

E.J. Van Lanen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:31:30 +0000

Russia’s greatest living novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, to complete his collected works and is writing every day despite failing health, a missing vertebra and being unable to walk, his wife, Natalia, revealed yesterday.

In a rare interview, Natalia Solzhenitsyn told The Observer that her Nobel prize-winning husband – who turns 90 in December – is still working on several major literary projects in his west Moscow dacha, and is determined to oversee the publication of a 30-volume edition of his selected works.

Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Chad Post — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:05:53 +0000

Spiegel Online has an interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in which he “iscusses Russia’s turbulent history, Putin’s version of democracy and his attitude to life and death.”