Sholokhov

American  

[shaw-luh-kawf, -kof, shaw-luh-khuhf] / ˈʃɔ ləˌkɔf, -ˌkɒf, ˈʃɔ lə xəf /

noun

1. Mikhail 1905–84, Russian novelist: Nobel Prize 1965.

---

Sholokhov British  

/ ˈʃɔləxəf /

noun

1. Mikhail Aleksandrovich (mixaˈil alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1905–84, Soviet author, noted particularly for And Quiet flows the Don (1934) and The Don flows Home to the Sea (1940), describing the effect of the Revolution and civil war on the life of the Cossacks: Nobel prize for literature 1965

---

Example Sentences

"People go down the mine knowing they may not come back up. And when you do come back up, anything can happen - the town is constantly being bombed," said Anatoly Sholokhov, deputy head of Toretsk's coal miners' association, as he watched the elevator door slide shut.

From BBC

Over the past decade, painstakingly spending hours on a single paragraph at a time, Bahand has translated Mikhail Sholokhov’s 20th-century classic “And Quiet Flows the Don” and Leo Tolstoy’s epic novels “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.”

From Washington Post

Viewers who are looking for a ready-to-wear version of a winning look from “Runway” veterans like Dmitry Sholokhov or Irina Shabayeva are presented with a message on the department store chain’s website that the collaboration with J.C.

From New York Times

Every discussion of Mikhail Sholokhov begins with the question of plagiarism — how, in 1926 and 1927, did a 22-year-old produce “Quiet Flows the Don,” the first part of a stirring four-volume epic set among the Cossacks?

From Washington Post

Sholokhov’s long line of detractors, down many decades — most notably Alexander Solzhenitsyn — accused him of lifting wholesale a dead man’s novel that he found among a trove of papers abandoned in the chaos of revolution and civil war.

From Washington Post