Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer who spent eight years in Soviet labour camps after being arrested in 1945 for remarks about Stalin in private letters. His novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and his documentary history The Gulag Archipelago brought the camp system to a wide readership. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, and returned to Russia in 1994.
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Life events
Born in the northern Caucasus shortly after his father's death.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook a degree in mathematics and physics while also studying literature by correspondence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDetained at the front as an artillery officer after censors read letters criticising Stalin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPublication of the labour-camp novella was approved during the Khrushchev thaw.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDid not travel to Stockholm to receive the prize, fearing he would not be allowed to return.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe first volume of his history of the Soviet camp system appeared abroad in Russian.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgArrested, stripped of Soviet citizenship and flown to West Germany.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLived and wrote in rural New England for nearly two decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCame back after his citizenship was restored, travelling by rail from Vladivostok to Moscow.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied of heart failure at the age of eighty-nine.
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