Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов) (May 24, 1905 (Old Style May 11) - February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist. He won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels and stories about the fates of Cossacks of southern Russia during the World War I and Russian Civil War in the book Tales of the Don and the novel And Quiet Flows the Don (earned Stalin Prize). Virgin Soil Upturned describes collectivization in cossack lands from the point of view of communist ideology (earned Lenin Prize). The unfinished novel They Fought for Their Country is about the Great Patriotic War.

Sholokhov was the member of the CPSU since 1932, member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1961, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1939, member of the USSR Supreme Soviet, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

Some works

Донские рассказы (Tales of the Don, 1926)

Лазоревая степь

Тихий Дон (And Quiet Flows the Don; 4 volumes, 1928-1940)

Они сражались за родину (They Fought for Their Country, printed by chapters, 1943-1969)

Поднятая целина (Virgin Soil Upturned , 2 volumes, 1932, 1960)

Судьба человека (The Fate of a Man, 1957)

External links

• nobel-winners.com's article on Michail Sholokhov