Unlike many of his contemporary literati, he was popular in the government.  
This Cossack began writing at age 17 with the 1926 collection of short stories "Donskie rasskazy."  Unlike many of his contemporary literati, he was popular in the government.  A member of the Central Committee, he won the Stalin prize for his most famous creation, a four-volume work set in his homeland.  FTP, identify this Nobel prize-winning author of Virgin Soil Upturned and The Silent Don.
This Cossack began writing at age 17 with the 1926 collection of short stories "Donskie rasskazy."  
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov