Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008 · b. Kislovodsk · d. Moscow
Russia
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Biography
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
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Awards
- honorary doctor of Syracuse University (2008)No list
- International Botev Prize (2008)No list
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007)No list
- Q126325594 (2000)No list
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (1998)No list
- The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism (1974)No list
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)No list
- Order of the Red Star (1944)No list
Notable Works
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- The Gulag Archipelago
- The First Circle
- Cancer Ward
- Two Hundred Years Together
- Lenin in Zurich
Spouses
- Natalya Reshetovskaya (1940–1951)
- Natalya Reshetovskaya (1957–1972)
- Natalia Solzhenitsyna (1973–2008)
Education
- Rostov State University
