Author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008 · Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Writer, Historian, Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright, Poet, Public figure, Prose writer, Opinion journalist, School teacher, Military personnel, Militant, Writer, Teacher, Short story writer
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
29
Peak rank
#2
Biography
- Born
- December 11, 1918 · Kislovodsk
- Died
- August 3, 2008 · Moscow
- Nationality
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- Russian
- Education
- Rostov State University
Awards & Honours
- 1944Order of the Red Star
- 1970Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1974The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
- 1998Lomonosov Gold Medal
- 2007State Prize of the Russian Federation
- 2008honorary doctor of Syracuse University
- 2008International Botev Prize
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
- Templeton Prize
- Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
- Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called
- TEFI
- Order of the Star of Romania
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- honorary citizen of Ryazan
- Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow
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