One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1962 novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). Set in a Soviet labour camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
AuthorAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Original titleОдин день Ивана Денисовича
TranslatorRalph Parker (1963); Ron Hingley and Max Hayward (1963); Gillon Aitken (1970); H.T. Willetts (1991)
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian
PublisherSignet Classic
Publication date
1962
ISBN0-451-52310-5
OCLC29526909

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (I Denisovich himself) had first-hand experience in the Soviet labor camps called the Gulag, having been imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for writing a derogatory comment in a letter to a fellow officer about the conduct of the war by Stalin.[source?]