About Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian-Swiss writer and the only author to have won the Russian Booker Prize (2000), the Russian National Bestseller (2005), and the Big Book Prize (2010). His books have been translated into 30 languages. He also writes in German. His first publications attracted the attention of literary critics and Shishkin received the Prize for the Best Debut of the Year. In 2000 the novel won Russian Booker Prize for the best Russian novel of the year.
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