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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.
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culture · Russian writer (1905–1984) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · poet · prose writer · journalist · politician · short story writer · also Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Michail Sholokhov, Mijaíl Sholojov, Sholokhov
Born 11 May 1905 · Died 21 February 1984 · Q42398
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2019· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Stalin’s Scheherazade: Was Nobel Winner Mikhail Sholokhov a Brilliant Writer or a Successful Con Man?
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1999· 2 entries
With assistance from the Russian government
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The Russian Academy of Science carried out an analysis of the manuscript and came to the conclusion that And Quiet Flows the Don had been written by Sholokhov himself
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1987· 1 entry
Several hundred pages of notes and drafts of the work were discovered, including chapters excluded from the final draft
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1984· 2 entries
Died 1984-02-21.
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Norwegian Slavicist and mathematician Geir Kjetsaa, in a monograph written with three other colleagues, provided statistical analyses of sentence lengths showing that Mikhail Sholokhov was likely the true author of And Q
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1980· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1980).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1980).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1980).
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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Awarded Order of Georgi Dimitrov (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Cyril and Methodius (1973).
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1972· 2 entries
Won Alexander Fadeyev Medal (1972).
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Became a vocal critic of Alexander Yakovlev, then a head of the Central Committee Propaganda Department, and Yakovlev’s article, "Against Antihistoricism" which attacked Russian nationalism; this resulted in a Politbu
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1971).
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1967· 3 entries
Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1967).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1967).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1967).
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1965· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — 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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Awarded Order of Lenin (1965).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for And Quiet Flows the Don (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Star of People's Friendship (1964).
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1961· 1 entry
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1939, and was a member of the USSR Supreme Soviet
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize for The New Land (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Accompanied Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on a trip to Europe and the United States
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1955).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1945).
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree for And Quiet Flows the Don (1941).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1939).
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1938· 1 entry
Sholokhov met Yevgenia Yezhova, wife of Nikolai Yezhov, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (NKVD), and checked into a hotel room with her, unaware that the room was bugged
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1932· 1 entry
And in 1937 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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1930· 1 entry
And subsequently was one of very few people who chose to give the leader a truthful account of what was happening in the country and nonetheless was not punished
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1929· 1 entry
A special commission was formed that accepted Sholokhov's authorship
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1928· 1 entry
Following the success of the first two volumes of And Quiet Flows the Don: it was speculated that the author stole the manuscript from a dead White Army officer
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1924· 1 entry
Sholokhov returned to Veshenskaya and devoted himself entirely to writing
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1922· 1 entry
Sholokhov moved to Moscow to become a journalist, but had to support himself through manual labour
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-05-11.
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