In Stalin’s Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov, Brian Boeck paints a nuanced portrait of Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize–winning Russian novelist and accused ...

When Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964, he gave as one of his reasons the fact that the award had recently been given to Boris Pasternak instead of that true socialist, ...

Peter Finn, the national security editor at The Washington Post, is the coauthor of “The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over A Forbidden Book.” Finn’s next book, “A Guest of The ...

The most celebrated of Russian novelists. MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV made his reputation with his powerful classic AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON. The first volume of his second big novel, VIRGIN SOIL UPTURNED, ...

On the river Don, deep in Cossack country, in the tiny village of Veshenskaya, lives gentle-mannered Mikhail Sholokhov. There, under the straw which roofs his three-room cottage, Sholokhov watches the ...

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (May 24, 1905 – February 21, 1984) was a Soviet novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks ...