What is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
{{Italic title}} {{infobox book | name = One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | title_orig = Один день Ивана Денисовича | translator = Ralph Parker (1963); Ron Hingley and Max Hayward (1963); Gillon Aitken (1970); H.T. Willetts (1991) | image = One day in the life of I D.JPG | author = [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] | cover_artist = | country = Soviet Union | language = Russian | series = | genre = | publisher = [[New American Library|Signet Classic]] | release_date = 1962 | isbn = 0-451-52310-5 | oclc= 29526909 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich''''' is a novel written by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], first published in November 1962 in the [[Soviet Union|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. 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]].{{fact|date=August 2021}} [[Category:1962 books]] [[Category:Russian novels]] [[Category:Books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] {{lit-stub}}