Mikhail Sholokhov

Also known as Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Michail Sholokhov, Mijaíl Sholojov

Soviet writer (1905-1984)

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Mikhail Sholokhov was a Russian writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet who held the rank of colonel. Born in 1905 in Kruzhilin, he was a citizen of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He participated in the Eastern Front and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His notable works include *And Quiet Flows the Don*, *Fate of a Man*, *The New Land*, and *They Fought for their Country*. He also wrote *The Don Flows Home to the Sea* and *Seeds Of Tommorrow*.

Sholokhov received the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, and the title of Hero of Socialist Labour. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection. He was a member of the USSR Union of Writers, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He died of laryngeal cancer in Vyoshenskaya in 1984.

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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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Film & TV

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…

Known for

Sergey Bondarchuk — Self (archive)1982

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1965
“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”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Mikhail
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Kruzhilin
Place of death: Vyoshenskaya
Child: Aleksandr Sholokhov
Occupation: politician
Political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Languages spoken: Russian
Award: "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
Notable work: Tales of the Don
Participant in: 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Field of work: politics
Genre: sketch story
Movement: socialist realism
Conflict: Eastern Front
Military rank: colonel
Image: Михаил Александрович Шолохов.jpg

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Commons category: Mikhail Sholokhov
date of birth: 1905-05-24
date of death: 1984-02-21
member of: Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
topic's main category: Category:Mikhail Sholokhov
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
ethnic group: Russians
cause of death: laryngeal cancer
allegiance: Soviet Union
place of burial: Vyoshenskaya
writing language: Russian
name in native language: Михаил Александрович Шолохов
start of work period: 1924-00-00
end of work period: 1984-00-00
manner of death: natural causes

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Early life and education

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