Mikhail Sholokhov
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965.
Born: 24, May, 1905, Veshenskaya, Russia
Died: 21, Feb, 1984, Veshenskaya, USSR (now Russia)
Prize motivation: "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"
Prize share: 1/1