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n. - Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918).

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  • The wonderful thing about Solzhenitsyn is that there are few villains in his books.
  • He received the reply: "Yes, that could well be so, but we are agreed that Solzhenitsyn is the most deserving candidate."
  • Sartre, however, characteristically called Solzhenitsyn a "dangerous element".
  • Possibly the only horror author of the twentieth century, unless you count Solzhenitsyn, which is cheating.
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