diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 3a4bb876..d9aa6c24 100755
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ Once this is done, pass the proxy settings to the ``TelegramClient`` constructor
   ...     api_id=12345, api_hash='0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef',
   ...     proxy=(socks.SOCKS5, 'localhost', 4444))
 
-The ``proxy=`` parameter should be a tuple consisting of
-``(type, 'ip address', port)``, as described `here <https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks#sockssocksocket>`_.
+The ``proxy=`` argument should be a tuple, a list or a dict, consisting of parameters described
+`here <https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks#usage-1>`_.
 
 Disclaimer
 ==========
diff --git a/telethon/network/tcp_client.py b/telethon/network/tcp_client.py
index 7fe7df42..d01836f2 100644
--- a/telethon/network/tcp_client.py
+++ b/telethon/network/tcp_client.py
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ class TcpClient:
         else:
             import socks
             self._socket = socks.socksocket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-            self._socket.set_proxy(*self._proxy)
+            if type(self._proxy) is dict:
+                self._socket.set_proxy(**self._proxy)
+            else:  # tuple, list, etc.
+                self._socket.set_proxy(*self._proxy)
 
     def connect(self, ip, port):
         """Connects to the specified IP and port number"""