Mikhail Sholokhov
May 11, 1905 –February 21, 1984
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Poet, Prose writer, Journalist
Lived 78 years
- Born in
- Kruzhilin
- Passed away in
- Vyoshenskaya
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов, IPA: [ˈʂoləxəf]; 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.
Notable works: Fate of a Man, And Quiet Flows the Don, The New Land, They Fought for their Country, Tales of the Don Awards: State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Nobel Prize in Literature, Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Sholokhov