His novels – all of which have been adapted for stage production in Russia – have been translated into 28 languages. Shishkin has continued to rack up awards, winning the National Bestseller in 2005 for Maidenhair and the 2011 Big Book Award for Letter-Book, which won the Big Book’s top jury and reader awards. Shishkin’s novel The Taking of Ishmael was serialised in two issues of Znamia in 1999, and went on to win the Russian Booker Prize in 2000. Shishkin’s literary debut came with the 1993 publication of the short story 'Calligraphy Lesson' in the Russian literary monthly Znamia the journal published his first novel, One Night Befalls Us All, later that year. Mikhail Shishkin is one of the most prominent writers in contemporary Russian literature, and the only writer to have received all three of Russia’s most prestigious literary awards: the Russian Booker Prize (2000), the National Bestseller Prize (2006) and the Big Book Prize (2006, 2011).
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