Mikhail Sholokhov - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1965
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Mikhail Sholokhov

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1965
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
Citizenship
Soviet Union Soviet Union Russian Empire Russian Empire
Languages
Russian
date of birth
5/24/1905
place of birth
Kruzhilin
date of death
2/21/1984
place of death
Vyoshenskaya
Lived
78 years

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member of
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1939
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • USSR Union of Writers
  • Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
field of work
  • politics
  • journalism
  • poetry
  • creative and professional writing
  • prose
occupation
  • writer
  • screenwriter
  • poet
  • politician
  • journalist
  • novelist
  • prose writer
  • short story writer
position held
  • deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
notable work
  • The New Land
  • Fate of a Man
  • And Quiet Flows the Don
  • Tales of the Don
  • They Fought for their Country
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