Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, scientific transliteration Mikhail Pavlovich Siskin; born January 18, 1961 in Moscow ) is a Russian writer and journalist.
Life
Shishkin studied German and English at the State Pedagogical University of Moscow. After his graduation, he worked for three years as a journalist for the youth magazine " Rowesnik ", after ten years he taught German and English at the " School Number 444 " in Moscow.
Mikhail Shishkin married a Swiss woman and lives in Zurich, where he works as a Russian teacher, teacher and interpreter for the migration office with his family since 1995. In the fall semester of 2009 Shishkin was a lecturer in Russian at Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia).
"While authors such as Sorokin or Pelevin existing writing traditions destroy aware Shishkin aims to acquire and develop the literary tradition. The Russian literary history, he compares it to a tree whose trunk grows by Slavonic translation of the Bible about the medieval chronicles in the great novels of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and forms a ramified crown in the 20th century. Authors such as Platonov make it brilliant, but unproductive branches dar. His own literary models Shishkin seen in the works of Chekhov, Bunin, Nabokov and Sasha Sokolov. "
Shishkin was awarded the 2000 Russian Booker Prize, and his books are consistently best sellers in Russia.
Literary work
- 2012 In the footsteps of Byron and Tolstoy. A literary walk from Montreux to Meiringen. Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 978-3-85869-515-4 Zurich.
- 2010 Venus Hair, Roman, German publishing house, Munich ISBN 978-3-421-04441-9.
- 2012 letter-writer, Roman. German publishing house, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04552-2.