A isayevich solzhenitsyn
[sohl-zhuh-neet-sin, sawl-; russian suh l-zhi-nyee-tsin] /ˌsoʊl ʒəˈnit sɪn, ˌsɔl-; russian səl ʒɪˈnyi tsɪn/
noun
alexander or aleksandr (isayevich)
[al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (show ipa), 1918–2008, russian novelist: n-bel prize 1970; in the u.s. 1974–94.
solzhenitsyn
/ˌsɒlʒəˈnɪtsɪn; russian səlʒəˈnitsin/
noun
alexander isayevich (alɪkˈsandr iˈsajɪvitʃ). 1918–2008, russian novelist. his books include one day in the life of ivan denisovich (1962), the first circle (1968), cancer ward (1968), august 1914 (1971), the gulag archipelago (1974), and october 1916 (1985). his works criticize the soviet regime and he was imprisoned (1945–53) and exiled to siberia (1953–56). he was deported to the west from the soviet union in 1974; all charges against him were dropped in 1991 and he returned to russia in 1994. n-bel prize for literature 1970
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