Nobel laureate
Mikhail Sholokhov — Nobel Prize in Literature 1965
“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”
Prize motivation
“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”
The Swedish Academy awarded Mikhail Sholokhov the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.
Other laureates of the 1960s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).