Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
He died of a stroke, the agency said, quoting literary sources in Moscow.
Solzhenitsyn served with the Red Army in World War II but became one of the most prominent dissidents of the Soviet era, enduring labor camps, cancer and persecution by Soviet officialdom.
--WS
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