Author
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Mikhail Sholokhov
Soviet writer (1905-1984)
1905
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1984
movement: socialist realism
genre: novel, short story, sketch story
country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Soviet Union
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
occupation: writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet, prosaist, journalist, politician
award received: State Stalin Prize, 1st degree, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Nobel Prize in Literature, Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Alexander Fadeyev Medal, Medal "Veteran of Labour", Lenin Prize, Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Order of Cyril and Methodius, Star of People's Friendship, Order of Sukhbaatar, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
position held: member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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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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