Nobel laureate: Mikhail Sholokhov
Born: 1905-05-24, Veshenskaya, Russia
Died: 1984-02-21, Veshenskaya, USSR (now Russia)
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1965
category: literature
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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"