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Mikhail Shishkin

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Mikhail Shishkin

Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961. He won the 2000 Booker Prize for his Seizure of Ismael and the 2005 National Bestseller Prize and the 2006 National "Big Book" Prize for his Maiden's Hair. He lives in Switzerland.

Articles by Mikhail Shishkin

Calligraphy Lesson

By Mikhail Shishkin

Good God, what criminals? They're ordinary people.

Translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz