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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

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He lauded such Russian novelists as Aleksey Tolstoy and Mikhail Sholokhov for what he called their pro-revolutionary writings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The hostility toward Sholokhov, old and deep, was never just a matter of suspected plagiarism.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2019

Sholokhov met Stalin in 1931 as he was dealing with critics and editors who questioned the ideological purity of the third volume, given its setting among counterrevolutionaries.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2019

He often quotes from Chinese classics, and in an interview with the Russian press last year he volunteered that he had read Krylov, Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Nekrasov, Chernyshevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Sholokhov.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

Solzhenitsyn, now living in exile in Zurich, notes that Sholokhov, a former laborer and clerk with scarcely any education, was only 23 years old when he published the first volume in 1928.

From Time Magazine Archive

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