Mikhail Sholokhov | |
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Born | [1] Vyoshenskaya, Donetsky district, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire[1] | 24 May 1905
Died | 21 February 1984[1] Vyoshenskaya, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1] | (aged 78)
Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
Nationality | Soviet |
Notable awards | Nobel 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.