One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir ( New World ) . One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ( Odin den ' Ivana Denisovicha ) is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir ( New World ) .