Russian · b. 1918
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exposed the Soviet gulag to the world. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" smuggled truth past censors as fiction. "The Gulag Archipelago" documented the system with survivor testimonies. The 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature recognized his ethical force. Exiled and eventually returned, Solzhenitsyn proved literature could challenge totalitarian power.