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1965 Nobel Prize in Literature

1965 Nobel Prize in Literature
Mikhail Sholokhov
"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."
Date
  • 15 October 1965 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1965
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Soviet-Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) "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."[1] He is the third Russian-speaking author to become the prize's recipient.


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