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pinkieplum -> A Favorite Author -- Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize Winner and Soviet Jew (6/23/2008 12:20:57 PM)
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Solzhenitsyn is one my most favorite authors. 'The Cancer Ward', pulished in 1968, is among the best-written and most riveting books i've ever read.
i participated the American Movement to Free Soviet Jews. Russia in the 1960's and 1970's closed synagogues, executed some Jews without reason, and exiled many more to the Gulags.
See 'A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews', by Murray Friedman, published in 1999.
Solzhenitsyn was able to produce works of extraordinary caliber, raising world awareness of the plight of Soviet Jews, under very difficult circumstancs. Many of his works were originally published after being smuggled out of Russia to the West. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. .
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The novels for which Solzhenitsyn is best known stem largely from his own experiences in prison, to which he was sent in 1945 for having written a letter to a friend critical of Stalin. He was released in 1953 and deported for life from the European part of the Soviet Union. But in 1957, as a result of Mr. Khrushcehv's program of de- Stalinization, he was fully rehabilitated.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/solz-prize.html
Do you have a favorite author?
Why do you enjoy their work?
pinkieplum
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