Outside the Soviet Union Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov is well known for his struggle for peace and international friendship as well as his talent as an author. Photo shows, Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the GDR State Council, awarding Sholokov with the order of 'The Big Star of International Friendship. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905 - 1984) Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of 'Quiet Flows the Don', Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies