Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)

Awarded the Prize “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.”

Soviet writer. Sholokhov was born in Veshenskaya, Russia on May 24, 1905. He attended several high schools until 1918. In 1922 he moved to Moscow to become a journalist. There he published a number of short stories in newspapers. He started his professional writing career in 1926. In 1939 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and later vice president of the Association of Soviet Writers. Shorokhov died in Veshenskaya on February 21, 1984.
Major Works:
Tales from the Don (1926); And Quiet Flows the Don (1940); Virgin Soil Upturned (1932); The Fate of a Man (1957),