Henry Carlisle
Henry Coffin Carlisle (September 14, 1926 – July 11, 2011) was a
Carlisle, with his wife
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English. Although Solzhenitsyn criticized the translations, Olga Carlisle felt they helped bring his work to a wider audience, and contributed to Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize.[1]
Carlisle was president of
PEN American Center (elected 1976), and actively supported writers facing censorship.[1]
Novels
- Ilyitch Slept Here (1965)
- The Contract (1968)
- The Somers Mutiny (1972)
- Voyage to the First of December (1972)
- The Land Where the Sun Dies (1975)
- The Jonah Man aka “A Custom of the Sea”(1984)
- The Idealists (1999) (with Olga Carlisle)
Translations
- The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn(with Olga Carlisle)
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (with Olga Carlisle)
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1978, with Olga Carlisle)
Notes
- ^ New York Times
Further reading
- Far from Russia: A Memoir by Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (2000)
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