About Henry Carlisle
Lived 1926 – 2011 (aged 84). Henry Carlisle was an American translator, novelist, activist and writer.
Henry Coffin Carlisle (September 14, 1926 – July 11, 2011) 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 (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)
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Who was Henry Carlisle?
American writer (1926–2011)
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Henry Carlisle was born on 14 September 1926 in San Francisco.
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Henry Carlisle died on 11 July 2011 in San Francisco.
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Henry Carlisle was a translator, novelist, activist and writer.
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Henry Carlisle was American.
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