Quick Facts About Mikhail Sholokhov
- Born
- May 11, 1905
- Died
- February 21, 1984
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- Known for
- And Quiet Flows the Don, Tales of the Don, Fate of a Man, They Fought for their Country, The New Land
- Spouse
- Maria Petrovna Gromoslavskaia
About Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.
Biography source:
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Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Literature
Lenin Prize
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of Sukhbaatar
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
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Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of the October Revolution
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
Order of Georgi Dimitrov
Alexander Fadeyev Medal
Order of Cyril and Methodius
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
Grand Star of People's Friendship
