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Sholokhov

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Sho·lo·khov  (shôl-kôf, -f), Mikhail Aleksandrovich 1905-1984.
Russian writer whose four-part novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1928-1940) concerns the effect of World War I and the Russian Revolution on Cossack life. He won the 1965 Nobel Prize for literature.

Sholokhov (Russian) [ˈʃɔləxəf]
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(Biographies / Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1905-1984) M, Russian, WRITING: author) Mikhail Aleksandrovich (mixaˈil alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1905- 84, Soviet author, noted particularly for And Quiet flows the Don (1934) and The Don flows Home to the Sea (1940), describing the effect of the Revolution and civil war on the life of the Cossacks: Nobel prize for literature 1965


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THE AWARDS Nobel Prize for Literature Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (USSR, 1905-1984), honored "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.
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