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Literature (114) |
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1970 (9) |
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1918 (22) |
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Kislovodsk (1) |
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2008 (8) |
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Moscow (12) |
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Alexander (4) |
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Russia (27) |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) |
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Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (13) |
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Russian Academy of Sciences (144) |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (12) |
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45. Other Awards |
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Lomonosov Gold Medal (23) |
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Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg" (1) |
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Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (2) |
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Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class (2) |
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Order of the Star of Romania (5) |
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Templeton Prize (4) |
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| complete name: |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
| nobel prize: |
literature |
| award year: |
1970 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 was awarded to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Alexander |
| family name: |
Solzhenitsyn |
| occupation: |
screenwriter |
| occupation: |
writer |
| occupation: |
poet |
| occupation: |
historian |
| occupation: |
playwright |
| occupation: |
public figure |
| occupation: |
novelist |
| field of work: |
Gulag |
| notable work: |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| notable work: |
The Gulag Archipelago |
| notable work: |
The First Circle |
| notable work: |
Cancer Ward |
| notable work: |
Two Hundred Years Together |
| description: |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn was afraid to go to Stockholm to receive his award for fear that he would not be allowed to reenter. He was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. (This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Isayevich and the family name is Solzhenitsyn.) |
| pronunciation: |
(/ˌsoʊlʒəˈniːtsɪn, ˌsɔːl-/; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1918 |
| date death: |
2008 |
| usual name: |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
