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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1965 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1905 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Asia (96) Russia (24) Kruzhilin (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1984 (7) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Asia (33) Russia (15) Vyoshenskaya (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name L-R (240) M (50) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) S (103) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name L-R (156) M (30) Mikhail (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 61 (32) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Writers and Editors (101) Writers and Authors (101) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Asia (83) Russia (27) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) R-T (460) R (448) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) S (49) Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (12) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) Alexander Fadeyev Medal (1) G-H (389) H (196) Hero of Socialist Labour (8) I-J (268) J (208) Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (7) Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (3) Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1) M-N (333) M (172) Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (3) Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (2) Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (8) Medal "Veteran of Labour" (2) O-P (364) O (205) Order of Georgi Dimitrov (1) Order of Lenin (13) Order of Sukhbaatar (1) Order of the October Revolution (2) Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (4) Q-Z (398) S (125) Stalin prize (8) Star of People's Friendship (1) complete name: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov nobel prize: literature award year: 1965 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 was awarded to Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov "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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts given name: Mikhail family name: Sholokhov occupation: screenwriter occupation: writer occupation: poet occupation: politician occupation: journalist occupation: novelist occupation: prosaist notable work: And Quiet Flows the Don notable work: Fate of a Man description: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 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. pronunciation: (/ˈʃɔːləˌkɔːf, -ˌkɒf/; Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1965/summary/> date birth: 1905 date death: 1984 usual name: Mikhail Sholokhov