Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov

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Known forWriting
GenderMale
Birthday24 May 1905
Died21 February 1984 (age 78)
Place of birthVeshenskaya, Russian Empire
Known credits21

Biography

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (May 24, 1905 – February 21, 1984) was a Soviet 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. The authorship of even his most famous texts has been widely disputed.