Sholokhov

It may well be said that Sholokhov is using a well-tried realistic technique, breaking no new ground, a technique that may seem naive in its simplicity if we set it beside that offered us in many a later model in the art of novel-writing.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 - Presentation Speech 1965

According to tradition, Seeger was inspired by a Cossack folksong he came across in the novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

According to tradition, Seeger was inspired by a Cossack folksong he came across in the novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) by Mikhail Sholokhov, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? 2009

Much as I would love to be wrong I fear there is as much chance of this happening as there was of the Soviet hack-writer Sholokhov giving his Nobel Prize for Literature to some more deserving writer - one who had not only suffered in the Soviet gulag but whose works were actually worth reading.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

"An epic tale by the celebrated Soviet-era author Mikhail Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows the Don - is being shown on Russian TV for the first time," reports the BBC.

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2006

Also, Kerouac is certainly a better choice than Sholokhov.

How it might have been ... Frank Wilson 2008

Sholokhov, who had almost no formal education, fit the theory perfectly.

Periscope 2007

But ever since the novel hit shelves in 1928, rumors have persisted that Sholokhov didn't write the book himself.

Periscope 2007

Sholokhov fans seemed to get the upper hand in 1999, when Russian scholars produced a manuscript of at least part of the novel in Sholokhov's own hand.

Periscope 2007

In the round of 16, there were still three Dostoevskys, two Tolstoys and two Solzhenitsyns along with some lesser lights (think of them as the mid-majors) like Babel, Goncharov, Lermontov, Bulgakov and Sholokhov.

Better Than an Eight Ball 2007