Writing · Novel · Original Story · Writer
Born Dec 11, 1918 · Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
Active 1963–2008 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Templeton Prize, Order of the Red Star, Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg", Lomonosov Gold Medal, Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the…