1905. Mikhail Sholokhov was born

Photo by Evgenia Formation from the site Sholohov.dspl.ru

110 years ago, on May 24, 1905, the Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, the Nobel Laureate in 1965, “For the Artistic Power and The integrity of the Don Cossacks in a turning point for Russia,” was born.

The presentation of the Prize to Sholokhov was predetermined by the events of the previous year, when the left French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre abandoned the Nobel Prize. He stated that the award became the “western higher cultural instance”, and complained that the award was not awarded to Sholokhov but “the only Soviet work that received a bonus was a book published abroad and prohibited in his native country” (Pasternak Zhivago’s novel “Dr. Zhivago”).

A number of researchers still doubt that Sholokhov is the only author of the novel “Quiet Don”, believing that he used the manuscript (protographer) Fedor Kryukov or some other Don writer.