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1918 – 2008Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)Died 3 August 2008, aged 89Russian novelist and Nobel laureate whose works, including The Gulag Archipelago, exposed the brutality of the Soviet labor camp system. His writing and exile from the USSR made him one of the twentieth century's most significant literary dissidents.