The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 was awarded to Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people"

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