Henry Carlisle

Henry Coffin Carlisle (September 14, 1926 – July 11, 2011) was a translator, novelist, and anti-censorship activist.^[1]

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.^[1]

Carlisle was president of PEN American Center (elected 1974), and actively supported writers facing censorship.^[1]

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)

Notes

1. Douglas Martin, "Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84", New York Times, July 14, 2011.

Further reading

• Far from Russia: A Memoir by Olga Andreyev Carlisle (2000)

External links

• Henry Carlisle's works at The New York Review of Books