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Michail Alexandrovich Sholokov, recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Kruzhlinin, Russia. His father was of the Russian lower middle-class. When he was 13 he joined the Bolshevik Army, and he later served in the Soviet Parliament as a member of the Communist Party.
Sholokov published his first volume of short stories, DONSKIE RASSKAZY (TALES OF THE DON), when he was 21. He is best known for the novel TICHY DON (QUIET FLOWS THE DON) which was published in 1928. He is the only officially sanctioned Soviet writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Michail Sholokov died in Veshenskaya, Russia in 1984.
CHRONOLOGY
1905
He was born in Kruzhlinin, Russia.
1918
He joined the Bolshevik Army.
1922
He moved to Moscow.
1924
He moved to Veshesnkaya.; He married Mariia Petrovna Gromoslavskaia.
1926
DONSKIE RASSKAZY (TALES OF THE DON); LAZUREVAJA STEP
1928
TICHY DON (QUIET FLOWS THE DON)
1932
PODNYATAYA TSELINA; He joined the Communist Party.
1937
He was elected to the Soviet Parliament.
1941
He was awarded the Stalin Prize for Literature.
1942
ONI SRAZHALIS ZA RODINU (THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY); NAUA NENAVISTI (HATE/THE SCIENCE OF HATRED)
1949
He joined the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
1951
SLOVO O RODINE
1955
He received the Order of Lenin award.
1956
SUDBA TSELOVEKA (THE FATE OF A MAN); SOBRANIE SOCHIENII
1960
He received the Lenin Prize.
1961
He was elected to the Communist Party Central Committee.
1962
SOBRANIE SOCHINENY
1965
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1966
EARLY STORIES
1967
ONE MAN'S DESTINY, AND OTHER STORIES, ARTICLES, AND SCETCHES, 1923-1963; FIERCE AND GENTLE WARRIORS
1970
PO VELENIJU DUSI (AT THE BIDDING OF THE HEART)
1975
SOBRANIE SOCHINENY; ROSSIYA V SERDTSE
1980
SLOVO O RODINE
1984
COLLECTED WORKS; He died in Veshenskaya, Russia. (January 21)
1985
SOBRANIE SOCHINENII
1994
SHOLOKHOV I STALIN
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