Question: is one day in the life of ivan denisovich fiction

Answer: Yes, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha pronounced (ɐˈdjin ˈdjenj ɪˈvanə djɪˈnjisəvjɪtɕə)) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s and describes a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.