The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 was awarded to Mikhail Sholokhov "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people", za: "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965". Nobelprize.org. 11 Feb 2012 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1965/; [dostęp 2012-02-11]
