Sky: Russian Writer Solzhenitsyn Dies

Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag concentration camp system, has died aged 89, his family has announced.

Solzhenitsyn’s writings revealed the horrors of life in Soviet Russia

The Nobel Prize-winner became one of the most famous dissidents of the Soviet era with his novel One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich and his non-fiction works The Gulag Archipelago and Cancer Ward.

Solzhenitsyn was arrested in 1945, while serving as an artillerty officer on the Eastern Front, for making a comment about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

He subsequently spent years in concentration camps.