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Mikhail Shishkin

Born

in Moscow, Russian Federation

January 18, 1961

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

Influences

Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov, Anton Chekov, William Faul ...more

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Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer.
Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow.
Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker, journalist, school teacher, and translator. He debuted as a writer in 1993, when his short story "Calligraphy Lesson" was published in Znamya magazine. Since 1995 he has lived in Zurich, Switzerland. He averages one book every five years.
Shishkin openly opposes the current Russian government, calling it a "corrupt, criminal regime, where the state is a pyramid of thieves" when he pulled out of representing Russia at the 2013 Book Expo in the United States.
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Average rating: 4.02 · 5,247 ratings · 682 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	كتاب الرسائل by Mikhail Shishkin, ميخائيل شيشكين, فؤاد المرعي (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 3,025 ratings — published 2010 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sota vai rauha - kirjoituksia Venäjästä ja lännestä by Mikhail Shishkin, Sirpa Hietanen (translator), Mihail Šiškin 4.30 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, Marian Schwartz (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 909 ratings — published 2005 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories by Mikhail Shishkin, Marian Schwartz (Translation), Leo Shtutin (Translation) 3.77 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Взятие Измаила by Mikhail Shishkin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator), Михаил Шишкин really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fred eller krig by Mikhail Shishkin, Merete Franz (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 124 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mürekkep Lekesi by Mikhail Shishkin, Erdem Erinç (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 130 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paltonul cu gaică by Mikhail Shishkin, Mihail Šiškin, Antoaneta Olteanu (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Punto di fuga by Mikhail Shishkin, Emanuela Bonaccorsi (translator) 3.93 avg rating — 74 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Записки Ларионова by Mikhail Shishkin, Михаил Шишкин 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The more of myself I transferred into words, the more obvious it became that words were powerless to express anything. Or, rather, it’s like this—words can create something of their own, but you can’t become words. Words are cheats. They promise to carry you off on the voyage into eternity, and then they set out in secret under full sail, stranding you on the shoreline.

But the most important point is that reality doesn’t fit into any words. Reality strikes you dumb. Everything important that happens in life is beyond words. There comes a point when you understand that if what you have experienced can be expressed in words, it means you haven’t experienced anything.”
― Mikhail Shishkin, Письмовник

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“Love is like the moon: if it's not waxing, it's waning, but it's the same as the last time, always the same.”
― Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair

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“People rarely die from love, but they are frequently born from it.”
― Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair

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Welches Buch eines russischen Kriegsgegners/einer Kriegsgegnerin wollen wir ab etwa Mitte September lesen?
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Vladimir Sorokin Der Tag des Opritschniks

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Maria Stepanova Nach dem Gedächtnis

3 votes, 33.3%

Mikhail Shishkin Venushaar

1 vote, 11.1%

Alexander Ilitschewski Der Perser

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Dmitry Glukhovsky TEXT

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