Russian author Solzhenitsyn hospitalized with heart trouble

MOSCOW (CNN) -- Famed Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn remains hospitalized after suffering from heart trouble earlier this month, but his condition is improving and does not appear life-threatening, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Solzhenitsyn, 78, the 1970 Nobel Prize winner for literature, was admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit of the elite Central Clinical Hospital May 12 and has been undergoing treatment.

Munira Razova, who heads Solzhenitsyn's Russian Public Foundation, a charity aiding ex-Soviet political prisoners, said she did not know Solzhenitsyn's precise problem but that it appeared not to have been a heart attack.

Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in Soviet prisons and camps under Josef Stalin and chronicled the cruel system in his novels and historical works, including "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," "The First Circle" and "The Gulag Archipelago." He returned to Russia in 1994 after years of exile.

 

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