He won the Nobel Prize for chronicling the Don Cossacks through revolution and civil war, but the question of whether he wrote his masterpiece alone has shadowed him for decades.
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When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course.
And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)
Sometimes life played with him, sometimes it hung on him like a stone round the neck of a drowned man.
And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)
The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain.
And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)
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About this person
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was born on 24 May 1905 in southern Russia, where the Don Cossacks lived and fought. His great subject became their fate across the upheavals of the Russian Revolution, the civil war that followed, and the brutal collectivization that came after. And Quiet Flows the Don, his most famous novel, traced those years in detail and brought him the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He spent his career writing about a world being ground to pieces by history. Sholokhov died on 21 February 1984.
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