Mikhail Sholokhov
Novelist
Russian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965, best known for his four-volume epic And Quiet Flows the Don, which depicts the Cossack people of the Don River region through the First World War, the Revolution, and the Civil War. His short story The Fate of a Man, published in 1957, became one of the most celebrated accounts of a Soviet soldier's survival in the Second World War.