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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
AuthorBooks · Second hand1918-2008
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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Birth
1918
Death
2008
First book
1962
Years writing
64
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a prolific Russian author who wrote over 360 works throughout his lifetime.
His book The Gulag Archipelago was instrumental in revealing the reality of the Soviet forced labor camp system to the world.
In 1970, his outstanding literary career was recognized with the Nobel Prize in Literature.
After being exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, he managed to return to his home country two decades later in 1994.
Beyond his work as a novelist and historian, he was the father of the renowned conductor and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn.