The author of Sholokhov is biography
Mikhail Sholokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov May 11, May 24, the Donskoy army - February 21 - the Russian Soviet writer, the Nobel Laureate of the G. Mother, Ukrainian peasant, served as a maid. Their illegitimate son at first bore the surname of his mother’s first husband, was considered the “Cossack son” with all the privileges and land by the land. However, after the death of Kuznetsov in the city of Education was limited to four classes of the gymnasium - there was a war further.
From the age of years, he begins independent labor activity. Changed many professions: the school teacher of the Likbeza, an employee of the village Revolutionary Committee, the accountant, the journalist from the year - the "Commissar for Bread", on the surplus. For the "excess of power in bakery" he was sentenced to execution by a prison - conditionally in the fall of the year, M.
Sholokhov arrives in Moscow, tries to enter the Rabfak - they do not take: it is not in the Komsomol. Lives random earnings. He visits the literary circle "Young Guard", tries to write, publishes feuilletons and essays in capital newspapers and magazines. These experiments prompted M. Sholokhov to the creation of Don Stories in the year Returns to his homeland and proceeds to the main work of his life - the novel “Quiet Don”.
The first two books of the novel were published in the year.
The publication was accompanied by a violent polemic: a novel about the civil war, written by a very young writer, “Anathemian Talented” by the recall of M. Gorky, puzzled both epic scope, skill, and the author’s position. The release of the third book of the novel was suspended due to the clearly sympathetic image of the Upper Donced Cossack uprising of the year. In the pause, M. Sholokhov is taking up a novel about collectivization on the Don - "Raised virgin lands." There were no complaints about the content of this book.
She went out in the year. And in the same year, the publication of the “Quiet Don” resumed - after Stalin’s intervention in the fate of the book. In the year, the last parts of this unique epic of the 20th century were published. For the "Quiet Don" M. Sholokhov was awarded the Order of Lenin, in the year the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree was awarded. However, the party activity of the first person of Soviet literature especially in the post-war years markedly exceeded the writer: neither during the war, the military corner of Pravda and the Red Star, nor after his pen came out almost nothing, reminiscent of the author of the “Pacific Don” except that the story “Fate of man”, G., G.
Sholokhov was awarded the Lenin Prize - for the second book of “Raised virgin”, and in M - the Nobel Prize for “Quiet Don”. Twice, the Hero of Socialist Labor, the cavalier of the six orders of Lenin, the honorary doctor of several European universities Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov died and was buried in the village of Veshenskaya, on the steep bank of the Don.