Mikhail Shishkin

Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961) is one of the most famous contemporary Russian fiction writers and publicists. He breaks the stereotype that “Russian writers can only create in Russia” and has been writing his novels and essays in Switzerland for thirty years. Many of them have won prestigious awards (Russian Booker, Big Book, National Bestseller, Internationaler Literaturpreis) and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Bulgarian. In recent years, the writer has been actively working to unite free Russian culture against the political regime in Russia. Together with Swiss Slavicists, he is the founder of the Dar literary award.