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| | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
 | | Sholokhov won international fame for an epic novel of his native land, |
 | | The work, which won a Stalin Prize in 1941, describes the effect of World War I, the revolution, and the civil war on the lives of the Don Cossacks. |
 | | Sholokhov was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature, being the first officially sanctioned Soviet laureate. |
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