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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Full Name of the recipient | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Year of Award | 1965 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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Motivation for the Award | 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 |
Place of Birth | Veshenskaya, Russia RUS |
Date of Birth | 24 May 1905 |
Age at the time of Award | 59 years |
Place of Death | Veshenskaya, USSR RUS |
Date of Death | 21 February 1984 |