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Mikhail Sholokhov

1905 - 1984

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов, IPA: [ˈʂoləxəf]; 24 May [O.S. 11 May] 1905 – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Sholokhov is the 372nd most popular writer (down from 333rd in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Russia (up from 122nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Writer.

Mikhail Sholokhov is most famous for writing the novel "And Quiet Flows the Don."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mikhail Sholokhov ranks 372 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coen brothers, Ivar Aasen, Carlos Castaneda, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. After him are Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Salman Rushdie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Mikhail Sholokhov ranks 16. Before him are Christian Dior, Henry Fonda, Greta Garbo, Carl David Anderson, Fred Trump, and Faustina Kowalska. After him are Emilio Segrè, Astrid of Sweden, Felix Bloch, Marcel Lefebvre, Vasily Grossman, and Arthur Koestler. Among people deceased in 1984, Mikhail Sholokhov ranks 13. Before him are François Truffaut, Truman Capote, James Mason, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, and Mohamed Naguib. After him are Julio Cortázar, Johnny Weissmuller, Stanislaw Ulam, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Ed Gein, and Martin Ryle.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Sholokhov ranks 121 out of 3,761. Before him are Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Olga of Kiev (890), and Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792). After him are Feodor III of Russia (1661), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Sergey Kirov (1886), and Vasili IV of Russia (1552).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Mikhail Sholokhov ranks 16. Before him are E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), and Mikhail Lermontov (1814). After him are Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), and Ivan Goncharov (1812).

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