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Also Known As	Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Born	December 11, 1918 • Kislovodsk • Russia
Died	August 3, 2008 (aged 89) • Russia
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize • Templeton Prize (1983)
Notable Works	“August 1914” • “Cancer Ward” • “In the First Circle” • “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” • “The Gulag Archipelago” • “The Mortal Danger” • “The Red Wheel”

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