WRITER

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 - 2008

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has received more than 5,668,759 page views. His biography is available in 117 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 110 in 2019). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the 90th most popular writer (up from 100th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Russia (up from 36th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Writer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is most famous for being a Russian writer and historian who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was born in 1918 and was imprisoned in 1945 for criticizing Stalin. He was released in 1956 and exiled to the West, where he wrote his most famous work, "The Gulag Archipelago."

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  • 4.70

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 90 out of 7,302. Before him are Isaac Asimov, Daniel Defoe, Knut Hamsun, Pablo Neruda, Giorgio Vasari, and José Saramago. After him are Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emily Brontë, and Matsuo Bashō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 6. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Ingmar Bergman, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Anwar Sadat. After him are Richard Feynman, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, and Rita Hayworth. Among people deceased in 2008, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 1. After him are Bobby Fischer, Edmund Hillary, Yves Saint Laurent, Suharto, Paul Newman, Samuel P. Huntington, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Albert Hofmann, Irena Sendler, Charlton Heston, and Arthur C. Clarke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 28 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander I of Russia (1777), Lev Yashin (1929), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), and Igor Stravinsky (1882). After him are Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Yul Brynner (1920), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 8. Before him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), and Isaac Asimov (1920). After him are E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926).

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