Henry Carlisle
American writer

Henry Carlisle

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American writer
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14 September 1926
Death:
11 July 2011
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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.
Carlisle was president of PEN American Center (elected 1974), and actively supported writers facing censorship.

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 (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)