Heard this on the news this morning. Although it was a long while before they gave a name, I could tell it had to be Solzhenitsyn the talking heads were eulogizing.

I still remember reading "One day..." when I was at school. Not one of the course books, one of those which my teacher took me to one side and said "I think you would appreciate this". One of the benefits of being a fast reader was that I cleared the bog standard course books with plenty of time left over, so the teachers would dig out some extra literary jewels from the store cupboard. "One day..." was one of these jewels (another was Huxley's "Brave New World"). It was an eye-opener, it still sends shivers down my spine, exposing facets of human nature I'd barely considered at that age. And the strength and simultaneous frailty of individuals in conflict with a pathologically authoritarian state.

A significant man, a significant writer. The world is less colourful without him