Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was a Russian author, historian, and dissident born in Kislovodsk, Russia. He gained worldwide fame for his works exposing the Soviet Gulag system, including the novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Ward, and his seminal nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical force of his pursuit of Russian literary traditions and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 before returning to Russia in 1994.