Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Nobel Prize in Literature 1965

“for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people”

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he gave expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people.