Sol·zhe·ni·tsyn  (sōl'zhə-nēt'sĭn, səl-zhə-nyē'tsĭn)  Soviet writer and dissident whose works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), exposed the brutality of the Soviet labor camp system. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. |