- known as
- writer, from 1959, historian, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, poet, public figure, prose writer, opinion journalist, school teacher, from 1957, military personnel, militant, writer, teacher, short story writer
- fields
- Gulag
- awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, 1970, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Templeton Prize, 1983, Order of the Red Star, 1944, Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg", Lomonosov Gold Medal, 1998, Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania, Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, honorary doctor of Syracuse University, 2008, State Prize of the Russian Federation, 2007, International Botev Prize, 2008, TEFI, Order of the Star of Romania, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, honorary citizen of Ryazan, The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, 1974, Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow
- member of
- USSR Union of Writers, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, from 1970, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1997, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1969, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, European Academy of Sciences, from 2004
- notable works
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle, Cancer Ward, The Gulag Archipelago, Two Hundred Years Together, Lenin in Zurich
