Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov
Sholokhov in 1960
Born	(1905-05-24)24 May 1905[1] Vyoshenskaya, Donetsky district, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire[1]
Died	21 February 1984(1984-02-21) (aged 78)[1] Vyoshenskaya, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
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.