The Russian novelist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) won an international reputation for an epic novel, "The Silent Don," dealing with his native Don Cossack land. Sholokhov won the Nobel...
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Mikhail Sholokhov was the only Soviet establishment writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1965), which recognized his controversial, monumental twentieth-century Cossack epic Tikhii Don (1...
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