Quick Facts About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Born
- December 11, 1918
- Died
- August 3, 2008
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Poet
- Notable works
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Known for
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle, Two Hundred Years Together, Cancer Ward, The Gulag Archipelago
- Spouse
- Natalya Reshetovskaya
About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped the world learn about political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical force with which he pursued Russian literary traditions. His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago challenged the Soviet state directly and sold tens of millions of copies.
Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Literature
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Templeton Prize
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"
Order of the Star of Romania
Lomonosov Gold Medal
International Botev Prize
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TEFI
State Prize of the Russian Federation
Order of the Red Star
Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called
Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow
honorary citizen of Ryazan
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
honorary doctor of Syracuse University
The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
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