Mikhail Sholokhov
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Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Sholokhov in 1960
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a Russian novelist known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in literature (1965)
"for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"
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Born
24 May 1905 Vyoshenskaya, Donetsky district, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
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Died
21 February 1984 (aged 78) Vyoshenskaya, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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Nationality
Soviet
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Occupation
Novelist
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Russia
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era
1800+
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Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 Lenin Prize 1960 Stalin Prize 1941