May 24, 1905 (April 21), Otomi, "Quiet Flows the Don of Sholokhov's birthday.


Mikhail Alexander Petrovich Sholokhov Soviet writer. In 1905, 24 born in ά��˹����, Don. Participate in the work of the revolution in the early 1920s, the 1923 debut vignette "test". The following year to join the Russian Federation of proletarian writer. Portfolio story of "Don" and "Light Blue Wilderness" published in 1926, the same year began creating novel "And Quiet Flows the Don", a total of 4 to 1940. The advent of the work the authors gained a wide reputation, was Stalin Prize for Literature in 1941.
other works include the novels "virgin land had been cleared" first, "a person's experience," "motherland war" (unfinished).
1965 was awarded the Nobel literature prize. He was the of Soviet Writers director, member of the CPSU Central Committee, the representative of the Supreme Soviet. Death in 1984.