Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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| Born | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 11 December 1918 Kislovodsk, Russian SFSR |
| Died | 3 August 2008 Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union Stateless Soviet Union Russia |
| Alma mater | Rostov State University |
| Children | Yermolai Solzhenitsyn, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Stepan Solzhenitsyn |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was an eminent Russian novelist, historian, and tireless critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote many books, most notably The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Two Hundred Years Together. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
