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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


(Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn)
Russia (1918 - 2008)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works.

Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.
 

Awards: Nobel (1970)

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Red Wheel
   1. August 1914 (1972)
   October 1916 (1983)
   2. November 1916 (1999)
   3. March 1917 (2017)
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Novels
   For the Good of the Cause (1964)
   The Cancer Ward (1968)
   In the First Circle (1968)
   Lenin in Zurich (1976)
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Collections
   Stories and Prose Poems (1971)
   Candle in the Wind (1973)
   Prussian Nights (poems) (1977)
   Three Plays (1986)
   Apricot Jam (2011)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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