One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings—particularly "The Gulag Archipelago" and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", his two best-known works—he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. For these efforts, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974.