[sohl-zhuh-neet-sin, sawl-; Russ. suh
l-zhi-nyee-tsin] 
| Alexander or A⋅le⋅ksandr (I⋅sa⋅ye⋅vich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich, -zahn-; Russ. uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] , born 1918, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94. |
| 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. |