Henry Carlisle


Henry Coffin Carlisle was a translator, novelist, and anti-censorship activist.
Carlisle, with his wife Olga [Andreyeva Carlisle], was notable for translating 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.

Novels

Ilyitch Slept Here The Contract The Somers Mutiny Voyage to the First of December The Land Where the Sun Dies The Jonah Man aka “A Custom of the Sea”
  • ''The Idealists''

Translations

The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The [Gulag Archipelago] by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky