What is the name of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov that won the Nobel Prize?

The novel by Mikhail Sholokhov that won the Nobel Prize is And Quiet Flows the Don. The four-volume epic follows Don Cossack communities through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Civil War.

Sholokhov began writing the novel in the mid-1920s. Its first three volumes appeared serially in the Soviet journal Oktyabr between 1928 and 1932, while the fourth volume was completed later, in 1940. The work received the Stalin Prize in 1941.

In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize recognized his literary achievement, especially the novel’s broad depiction of Cossack life during a period of enormous political and military upheaval. A common mix-up is Virgin Soil Upturned, another major Sholokhov novel, or The Fate of a Man, a celebrated short story. The novel is also known in English as The Quiet Don or The Silent Don.