One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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| Author | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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| Original title | Один день Ивана Денисовича |
| Translator | Ralph Parker (1963); Ron Hingley and Max Hayward (1963); Gillon Aitken (1970); H.T. Willetts (1991) |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
| Publisher | Signet Classic |
Publication date | 1962 |
| ISBN | 0-451-52310-5 |
| OCLC | 29526909 |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). Set in a Soviet labour camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (I Denisovich himself) had first-hand experience in the Soviet labor camps called the Gulag, having been imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for writing a derogatory comment in a letter to a fellow officer about the conduct of the war by Stalin.[source?]
