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From the Archives, 1970: Nobel for banned Soviet writer – Sydney Morning Herald
On October 8, 1970, exiled Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel prize in literature, but it would be four years before he was presented w…
The controversial Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, banned in his homeland, was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature today. The Swedish Academy of Letters said it had made the award to the 52-year-old writer for the “ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” The prize has a cash award of $74,500. Solzhenitsyn had been a leading candidate for the award for several years.
Solzhenitsyn, expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union this ye…
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