biography
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Sholokhov, Mikhail Alexandrovich
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pronunciation:
[sholokhof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–84)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born near Veshenskaya, SW Russia. After serving in the Red Army (1920), he became a writer, best known for his novel tetralogy Tikhy Don (1928–40, And Quiet Flows the Don, trans 1960), and other novels of Cossack life. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. |
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