1918 - 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident, best known for his work exposing the harsh realities of life in the Soviet Union through his literature. His most famous works, including "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "The Gulag Archipelago," detailed the experiences of prisoners in the Soviet labor camp system. Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 for the ethical force with which he has pursued the human spirit in his writings.