NMLP P-001017 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin den Ivana Denisovicha)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · First in Novy Mir journal, No. 11 (Moscow); first separate book edition Sovetsky Pisatel (Moscow) · 1962

The Russian Novy Mir November 1962 journal issue is the true first appearance; the 1963 Sovetsky Pisatel printing is the first book edition. The several 1963 English translations (US Praeger and Dutton, UK Gollancz) are competing English firsts thus, appearing near-simultaneously and well after the Russian text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-001017 for "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin den Ivana Denisovicha)" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-001017, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).