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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918-2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer born on December 11, 1918.

Biography

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer born on December 11, 1918.

He is known for his works that expose the atrocities of the Soviet system, particularly his novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' and his monumental work 'The Gulag Archipelago'.

Solzhenitsyn was arrested for criticizing the Soviet government and spent several years in labor camps.

After being released, he continued to write about his experience and became a symbol of intellectual resistance against oppression.

In 1970, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He passed away on August 3, 2008, in Moscow, leaving behind a literary legacy that challenges tyranny and injustice..