Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (/ˈʃɔːləˌkɔːf, -ˌkɒf/; Russian:Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов; May 24 [O.S. May 11] 1905 – February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/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 the famous And Quiet Flows the Don.