name: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
birth_date: 1918-12-10 00:00:00
death_date: 2008-08-03 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Fiction
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ratings_count: 210259
about: also known asAlexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system. This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag. Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan... also known asAlexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system. This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag. Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan... ...more