50+ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nobel Prize Background. The soviet government denounced solzhenitsyn's nobel prize as a politically hostile act. 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.
In his lecture of acceptance of the nobel prize for literature in 1970, solzhenitsyn quoted a russian proverb:
The soviet dissident writer and nobel literature prize winner alexander solzhenitsyn has died aged 89, according to the interfax news agency. The current state prize is awarded not by the president personally, but by a community of top experts. Belarus on monday summoned nobel literature prize winner svetlana alexievich for questioning over her ties to the opposition as the authorities. He was sent to prison and labor camps over a letter that criticized joseph stalin.
