Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
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| Born | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov May 24, 1905 Vyoshenskaya, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 21, 1984 (aged 78) Vyoshenskaya, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Ethnicity | Russian, Ukrainian |
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 |
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (/ˈʃɔːləˌkɔːf, -ˌkɒf/;Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов; May 24 [O.S. May 11] 1905 – February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/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 the famous And Quiet Flows the Don.
Sholokhov was born in Russia, in the "land of the Cossacks" – the Kruzhilin hamlet, part of stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, in the former Administrative Region of the Don Cossack Army.
His father, Aleksander Mikhailovich (1865–1925), was a member of the lower middle class, at times a farmer, cattle trader, and miller. Sholokhov's mother, Anastasia Danilovna Chernikova (1871–1942), the widow of a Cossack, came from Ukrainian peasant stock (her father was a peasant in the Chernihiv oblast). She did not become literate until a point in her life when she wanted to correspond with her son.
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