| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 42 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Mikhail Sholokhov |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1905 |
| Year, Death: | 1984 |
| Profession: | Author |
| Country: | U.S.S.R. (SU) now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Valentin Kiparsky |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of the Russian language |
| University: | University of Helsinki |
| City: | Helsinki |
| Country: | FINLAND (FI) |