About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Islamic awards, Templeton Prize laureates, Freeman Dyson, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, John Polkinghorne, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, Charles Colson, Leipzig Human Rights Award, Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, Charles Hard Townes, Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Charles Taylor, Arthur Peacocke, Frere Roger, Baba Amte, Francisco J. Ayala, Leo Joseph Suenens, Paul Davies, Michael Novak, Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Chiara Lubich, John D. Barrow, Cicely Saunders, George Ellis, Stanley Jaki, Four Freedoms Award, Thomas Torrance, George MacLeod, Micha Heller, Holmes Rolston III, Nikkyo Niwano, Bill Bright, Alister Hardy, Ian Barbour, Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal, Sigmund Sternberg, Ralph Wendell Burhoe, Charles Birch, Inamullah Khan, Mount Zion Award, Secularist of the Year, Kyung-Chik Han, Republic of Tunisia International Prize for Islamic Studies, John Courtney Murray Award, James I. McCord, Dubai International Holy Quran Award, Archbishop of Canterbury's Award for Outstanding Service to the Anglican Communion. Excerpt: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (English pronunciation: Russian: , pronounced ) (11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system - particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, RSFSR (now in Stavropo...