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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov — Nobel Prize
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Literature 1965
Born : 1905-05-24 — Veshenskaya, Russia
Died : 1984-02-21
“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”
Literature · 1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, born on May 24, 1905, in Veshenskaya, Russia, was a renowned Russian writer. He is best known for his epic of the Don, which depicts a historical phase in the life of the Russian people. Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 for the artistic power and integrity with which he expressed this period. He passed away on February 21, 1984.

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Who is Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov?
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, born on May 24, 1905, in Veshenskaya, Russia, was a renowned Russian writer. He is best known for his epic of the Don, which depicts a historical phase in the life of the Russian people. Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 for the artistic power and integrity with which he expressed this period. He passed away on February 21, 1984.
In what year did Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov win the Nobel Prize?
1965 — Literature
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