![]() ![]() Therefore, we recently got a better insight on the motivations by the Academy for giving the 1970 prize in literature to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The decisions by the Nobel prize committees are declassified after fifty years. The complete version, published recently in many languages, gives an even better inside picture of the Soviet state, its leaders and ordinary citizens, and thus strengthen the Academy’s motivations for the award. We now know that his novel In the First Circle as it was published in 1968 was only a shortened version that Solzhenitsyn had hoped would pass the censorship. On the other hand, Soviet authorities prohibited publication of his novels, however, they were widely circulated underground or published abroad. The Academy characterized his work as a renewal of the great Russian literary tradition. His novels reflected unique experiences of many prisoners. The recently declassified proceedings of the Swedish Academy shed new light on why it awarded Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the literature prize in 1970. ![]() ![]() New Insights Concerning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ![]()
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