Stig Fredrikson was a young Swedish reporter in Moscow when he met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Laureate for Literature. Their association reads like a spy novel, with secret meetings, dead drops and disguises. The relationship became more complicated when Fredrikson began smuggling Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts out of the Soviet Union. Fredrickson is the author of Alexander's Courier: A Journalist's Life in the Shadow of the Cold War (2004).
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WILL-AM580 FOCUS interview with Stig Fredrikson