Mikhail Sholokhov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mikhail Sholokhov

Soviet writer

Date of Birth: 11-May-1905

Place of Birth: Kruzhilin, Russia

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1984

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, politician, journalist, novelist, prosaist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: ?????´? ??????´??????? ??´?????, IPA: ['?ol?x?f]; 24 May [O.S.
11 May] 1905 – 21 February 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 in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.