Author

Books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was a Russian novelist and historian who spent eight years in Soviet labor camps and was later exiled from the USSR in 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. His novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Ward drew on his camp experience, but The Gulag Archipelago — published in the West starting in 1973 — was his most ambitious and politically explosive work. He returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet collapse and continued writing until his death.