Born in 1961 in Moscow, Mikhail Shishkin is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Russian literature, and is the only author to have won all three major Russian Literary Prizes. He lives in Zurich.
Shishkin is the most prominent Russian novelist of his generation.
To compare him to Solzhenitsyn is no exaggeration... [An] important
book
*Sunday Times*
An elegant blend of history, biography and polemic
*Daily Telegraph*
Often sings with powerfully estranged, original observations...
minutiae and grand philosophy collide on every page.
*Boris Fishman, The New York Times Book Review (on The Light and
The Dark)*
Shishkin is interested in what is most precious and singular in
classic Russian fiction: the passionate inquiry into what, in
Maidenhair, is called the 'soul, quintessence, pollen.'
*Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal (on The Light and The Dark)*
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