Mikhail Sholokhov

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1905-05-24

Deathday 1984-02-21 (78 years old)

Place of Birth Veshenskaya, Russian Empire

Also Known As Михаил Александрович Шолохов, Михаил Шолохов

Mikhail Sholokhov

Biography

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (24 May 1905 – 21 February 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.

Known For

Writer

2006
2006
2005
The Colt

as Story

1971
In the azure steppe

as Short Story

1971
Deadly Enemy

as Story

1965
Unbidden Love

as Writer

1964
A Tale of Don

as Novel

1961
Little Bugger

as Novel

1960
The Colt

as Writer

1959
Fate of a Man

as Story

1957
1940
The New Land

as Novel