Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich^[a] Solzhenitsyn (/ˌsoʊlʒəˈniːtsɪn, ˌsɔːl-/;^[2] Roushie: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)^[3] (eften Romanized tae Alexandr or Alexander)^[4][5] wis a Roushie novelist, historian, an ootspoken creetic o the Soviet Union, especially its totalitarianism, who helped tae raise global awareness o its gulag forced labor camp seestem.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn in 1974
Born	Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 11 December 1918(1918-12-11) Kislovodsk, Roushie SFSR
Dee'd	3 August 2008(2008-08-03) (aged 89) Moscow, Roushie
Thrift	Novelist Soldier Teacher
Ethnicity	Roushie
Ceetizenship	Soviet Union (1922–1974) Stateless (1974–1990)[1] Soviet Union (1990–1991) Roushie (1991–2008)
Alma mater	Rostov State Varsity
Notable warks	Ane Day in the Life o Ivan Denisovich The First Circle Cancer Ward The Gulag Airchipelago Twa Hunder Years Thegither The Reid Wheel
Notable awairds	Nobel Prize in Leeteratur (1970) Templeton Prize (1983) Lomonosov Gowd Medal (1998) Internaitional Botev Prize (2008)
Spoose	Natalia Alekseyevna Reshetovskaya (married 1940–52 an 1957–72) Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova (married 1973–2008, his daith)
Bairns	Yermolai Solzhenitsyn (born 1970) Ignat Solzhenitsyn (born 1972) Stepan Solzhenitsyn (born 1973) (aw wi Natalia Svetlova)
Wabsteid
www.solzhenitsyn.ru

Notes

1. His faither's gien name wis Isaakiy, which would normally result in the patronymic Isaakievich; houever, the forms Isaakovich an Isayevich baith appeared in offeecial documents, the latter acomin the acceptit version.