Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984) was born in the land of the Don Cossacks. He attended several schools until 1918, then fought on the revolutionary side during the civil war. He settled in Moscow in 1922, published in 1926 a first collection of stories about his native region, and began the same year the novel to which he devoted fourteen years. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and died on 21 February 1984.

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• NovelQuiet Flows the DonТихий ДонMikhail Sholokhov · 1940Literature