Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov
Sholokhov in 1960
Sholokhov in 1960
Born(1905-05-24)24 May 1905[1]
Vyoshenskaya, Donetsky district, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire[1]
Died21 February 1984(1984-02-21) (aged 78)[1]
Vyoshenskaya, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalitySoviet
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Literature
1965
Lenin Prize
1960
Stalin Prize
1941
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов, IPA: [ˈʂoləxəf];[2] 24 May [O.S. 11 May] 1905 – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.