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Mikhail Elizarov

ミハイル・エリザロフ

Mikhail Elizarov

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1973-01-28 （Ivano-Frankivsk）
Nationality
Russian
Languages
Russian

Career

Occupations
writer, singer-songwriter
Active Years
2000-2024
Nominations
Andrei Bely Prize shortlist (2001, Fingernails), National Bestseller finalist (2011, Cartoons)

Awards

Russian Booker Prize
2008
Work: The Librarian
Organization: Russian Booker Foundation
Result: winner
National Bestseller Literary Prize
2020
Work: Earth
Result: winner
NOS Prize
2014
Work: We went out to smoke for 17 years
Category: 観客選択賞
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Librarian

2007 Russian postmodernism, magic realism 416 pages

The protagonist discovers that books by a forgotten Soviet writer have mystical properties, leading to battles among reader groups.

mysticismSoviet legacypower of literature
Adaptations
  • [TV series] The Librarian (2023)
Translations
  • English (Andrew Bromfield, Pushkin Press, 2015)
  • French (Françoise Mancip-Renaudie, 2010)
  • Italian, etc.

Bibliography

  • Prose (2000)
  • Fingernails (2001)
  • Pasternak (2003)
  • Red film (2005)
  • The Librarian (2007)
  • Blocks (2008)
  • Cartoons (2010)
  • Burattini, The Fascism has passed (2011)
  • We went out to smoke for 17 years (2012)
  • Earth (2019)

Adaptations

  • The Librarian (TV series, 2023)

Translations of Works

  • English, German, French, Danish, Italian, Serbian, Estonian, etc.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
shockingintellectual fictionpop culture elements
Recurring Motifs
Soviet legacymystical bookssatire

Legacy

A prominent contemporary Russian writer, winner of the Russian Booker Prize, known for postmodernism and magic realism.