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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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Born:
Dec. 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia
Died:
Aug. 3, 2008, Troitse-Lykovo, near Moscow (aged 89)
Awards And Honors:
Nobel Prize
Templeton Prize (1983)
Notable Works:
“August 1914”
“Cancer Ward”
“In the First Circle”
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
“The Gulag Archipelago”
“The Mortal Danger”
“The Red Wheel”
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born Dec. 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia—died Aug. 3, 2008, Troitse-Lykovo, near Moscow) was a Russian novelist and historian, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family of Cossack intellectuals and brought up primarily by his mother (his father was killed in an accident before his birth). He attended the University of Rostov-na-Donu, graduating in mathematics, and took correspondence courses in literature at Moscow State University. He fought in World War II, achieving the rank of captain of artillery; in 1945, however, he was arrested for writing a letter in ...(100 of 1195 words)

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