Sol·zhe·ni·tsyn 
(sōl′zhə-nētsĭn, səl-zhə-nyētsĭn), Aleksandr Isayevich 1918-2008.
(sōl′zhə-nētsĭn, səl-zhə-nyētsĭn), Aleksandr Isayevich 1918-2008. 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.