Henry Carlisle

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Henry Carlisle (1926–2011) 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. Carlisle was president of PEN American Center (elected 1976) and actively supported writers facing censorship. He is the author of several novels including Voyage to the First December which won the Putnam Award for fiction in 1972.