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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965

"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"
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
USSR
b. 1905
d. 1984
 
 
 
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