Fifty-five years ago today, on November 27, 1970 (October 29, 1970 lunar calendar), Nobel laureate Solzhenitsyn did not dare to accept the prize. November 27, 1970 Nobel laureate Solzhenitsyn did not dare to accept the prize. On November 27, 1970, Nobel laureate for literature Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said that he would not go to Sweden to accept the prize "for personal reasons." But the Nobel committee knew the reason, namely: if he accepted the literature prize, the Soviet Union would keep him out of the country forever. The author did not want to risk being separated from his family forever (his wife was often treated for illness). His anti-Stalinist book "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", "The First Circle" and other works, all published abroad, drew the ire of Soviet officials