Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn late in life
Born	Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn December 11, 1918 Kislovodsk, RSFSR
Died	August 3, 2008 (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Novelist
Awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 Templeton Prize 1983

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) was a Russian writer of novels, dramatist, and historian. With his works, the Gulag, a Soviet labor camp, became well known. Due to this, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, but also was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. In 1994, Solzhenitsyn went back to Russia. Later in his life, his health was bad, and he died of heart failure on August 3, 2008. He received state funeral.

Other websites

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive's page on Solzhenitsyn
• A World Split Apart: Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Commencement Address to the graduating class at Harvard University
  • Audio and textual version of speech
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "Saving the Nation Is the Utmost Priority for the State" "Moscow News" (2.05.2006)
• Der Spiegel interviews Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'I Am Not Afraid of Death' "Der Spiegel" July 23, 2007
• Vermont Recluse Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Solzhenitsyn’s autobiography from his non-official site
• The introduction to the Book Gulag by Anne Applebaum
• Russian Memorial website to Human Rights victims
• (Russian) Solzhenitsyn: biography, photos, prose, interviews, critical essays
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Obituary and public tribute
• The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005