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Mikhail Sholokhov was a Soviet writer best known for his epic novels about Russian life during the revolutionary and early Soviet periods, particularly *And Quiet Flows the Don*. He remains an important figure in Russian literature, though his legacy is complicated by his support for the Soviet regime and questions about the authorship of some of his works.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905-05-24
- Died
- 1984-02-21
- Works
- 21
Top works
- The Don Flows Home to the Sea
- Seeds Of Tommorrow
- Donskie Rasskazy
- Tihij Don Kniga 1-2
- Tihij Don Kniga 3-4
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Writing · Veshenskaya, Russian Empire
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…
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- Sergey Bondarchuk — Self (archive)1982
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- Type
- Person
- Country
- US
- Active from
- 1975-03-26
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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.
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1905 births1984 deaths20th-century Russian short story writersDon CossacksFirst convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet UnionForeign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsFull Members of the USSR Academy of SciencesHeroes of Socialist LabourMembers of the Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionMembers of the Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union