^#smrgSAHAF The Fate of a Man - 1974

This story, written in 1957, is in the same tradition. On the outbreak of war, in July 1941, Sholokhov joined the army with the rank of regimental commissar and served four years as a war correspondent on various fronts, reporting on and taking part in much of the fiercest fighting. While he was away, fascist bombs killed his mother and destroyed his house at Veshenskaya on the Don.

These intense and bitter experiences of war led him to write such significant books as The Science of Hate and They Fought for their Country. They lie also at the source of The Fate of a Man, which reveals with striking simplicity of the invincible moral strength of an ordinary Soviet man, whose fate it was to bear the brunt of the struggle that rid the world of nazism.

In 1965 Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize. His works have been translated into ninety languages.