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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He is best known for his novels The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the latter of which was made into a film by Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov. Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia, on December 11, 1918. He studied mathematics at Rostov State University and physics at Moscow State University, but he was expelled from the latter in 1945 for writing a letter criticizing Joseph Stalin. He served in the Red Army during World War II and was captured by the Germans in 1942. He was imprisoned in a concentration camp, where he began writing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The novel was published in the Soviet Union in 1962 and was an instant success, both inside and outside the country. It was followed by The First Circle (1968) and Cancer Ward (1968). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, but he was not allowed to travel to Sweden to receive it. In 1974, he was expelled from the Soviet Union and settled in the United States, where he continued to write. In 1990, he returned to Russia. He died in Moscow on August 3, 2008.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a Russian writer and historian who is known for his works on the Soviet Union. He was born in 1918 and died in 2008. Solzhenitsyn was a critic of the Soviet Union and its policies. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
