Aleksandr Isayevich[a] Solzhenitsyn (;[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.
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| Born | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
11 December 1918(1918-12-11)
Kislovodsk, Roushie SFSR |
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| Dee'd | 3 August 2008(2008-08-03) (aged 89)
Moscow, Roushie |
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| Ethnicity | Roushie |
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| Ceetizenship | Soviet Union (1922–1974)
Stateless (1974–1990)[1]
Soviet Union (1990–1991)
Roushie (1991–2008) |
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| Alma mater | Rostov State Varsity |
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| 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
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| Notable awairds | - Nobel Prize in Leeteratur (1970)
- Templeton Prize (1983)
- Lomonosov Gowd Medal (1998)
- Internaitional Botev Prize (2008)
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| Spoose | Natalia Alekseyevna Reshetovskaya (married 1940–52 an 1957–72) Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova (married 1973–2008, his daith)
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| Bairns | - Yermolai Solzhenitsyn (born 1970)
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn (born 1972)
- Stepan Solzhenitsyn (born 1973)
- (aw wi Natalia Svetlova)
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| Wabsteid |
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| www.solzhenitsyn.ru |
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