The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965
Awarded on: 1965-10-15
"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"
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Born: 1905-05-24 in Veshenskaya, Russia
Gender: male
Field: Russian writer (1905–1984)
Biography
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 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.