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Mikhail Sholokhov

Soviet writer (1905-1984) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 78

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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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1984Died21 February 19841980Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1975Order of Georgi DimitrovAwardOrder of LeninAward1972Alexander Fadeyev MedalAward1971Order of the October RevolutionAward1967"Hammer and Sickle" gold medalAwardOrder of LeninAward1965Nobel Prize in LiteratureAwardOrder of LeninAward1960Lenin PrizeAward1955Order of LeninAward1941State Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1939Order of LeninAward1934“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.”In their wordsAnd 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.”In their wordsAnd Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain.”In their wordsAnd Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“‘ The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!&rsquo”In their wordsAnd Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

1905Born11 May 1905

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Order of Lenin1980
Hero of Socialist Labour1980
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal1980
Order of Lenin1975
Order of Georgi Dimitrov1975
Order of Cyril and Methodius1973
Alexander Fadeyev Medal1972
Order of the October Revolution1971
Order of Lenin1967
Hero of Socialist Labour1967
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal1967
Order of Lenin1965
Nobel Prize in Literature1965
Grand Star of People's Friendship1964
Lenin Prize1960
Order of Lenin1955
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class1945
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1941
Order of Lenin1939
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
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 Sukhbaatar

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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Russia
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Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1984 · aged 78

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In the same film or series as Mikhail

Andrei AbrikosovAlso in And Quiet Flows the Don (1931)Lidiya Fedoseyeva-ShukshinaAlso in They Fought for Their Motherland (1975)Aleksei LoktevAlso in The New Land (1971)