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Also known as "Odin Den' Ivana Denisovicha"
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Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works detailed the horrors of Stalin's Soviet labor camps, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970 for "The First Circle". Solzhenitsyn was considered a moral voice for Russia. His works centered on issues of good and evil, materialism and salvation. He was arrested in February 1945 for writing letters critical of Stalin and was sentenced to eight years at labor camps, which would provide the context of his future writings.
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was his first novel. It was published in 1959. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. It is based on Solzhenitsyn's own experiences at a labor camp in Kazakhstan where he worked as a miner, bricklayer and foundryman.
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