Александр Солженицын

Александр Солженицын (in English: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) (1918 - 2008) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist and historian. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. His name can also be transliterated as Aleksandr Solženicyn, Alexander Solschenizyn and Alexandre Soljenitsyne, among others.