Solzhenitsyn site opens on late writer's birthday

[December 12, 2008]  MOSCOW (AP) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn's works used to be typed up and passed around in secret. Now they are just a few mouse-clicks away.

A Web site dedicated to the late Soviet dissident and Nobel literature laureate is up and running on what would have been his 90th birthday Thursday. Solzhenitsyn died in August.

The Russian-language site includes biographical information, news and links to many of his works including short stories and the massive "Gulag Archipelago" trilogy.

It also includes an audio version of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."

The Interfax news agency quotes the writer's widow, Nataliya, as saying she hopes to publish all his works on the state-supported site.

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http://www.solzhenitsyn.ru/

[Associated Press]

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