1965 Nobel Prize in Literature

1965 Nobel Prize in Literature
1965 Nobel Prize in Literature
Mikhail Sholokhov
	"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."
Date	15 October 1965 (announcement); 10 December 1965 ; (ceremony);
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by	Swedish Academy
First awarded	1901
Website	Official website

The 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) "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."^[1] He is the third Russian-speaking author to become the prize's recipient.

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