Maxim Alexandrovich Osipov

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Maxim Osipov (Russian author), 2014

Maxim Alexandrowitsch Ossipow ( Russian : Максим Александрович О́сипов; born October 4, 1963 in Moscow ) is a Russian cardiologist and writer . His short stories and essays have won numerous prizes, and his dramas have been staged in Russian theater and broadcast on the radio.

Life

Osipov was born in Moscow and received his medical training at the Russian State Medical University . In the early 1990s he was a fellow at the University of California, San Francisco . After returning to Moscow, he continued to practice, co-authored a textbook on clinical cardiology and founded Practica, a publishing house specializing in medical, musical and theological material. After moving to Tarussa , a town about 100 kilometers from Moscow, Ossipov began working in the local hospital. He set up a non-profit foundation to secure the hospital's funding and improve the standard of care. He lives, writes and practices medicine in Tarussa.

Create

Ossipov made his literary debut in the magazine Snamja in 2007 with a lyrical essay about his experiences in Tarussa. His works have been published in six Russian-language volumes with stories and essays. For his literary work he was awarded the Kazakov Prize, the Bunin Prize and the Belkin Prize in Russia, among others. He also wrote dramas that were performed by several Russian theaters. Ossipov's works have been translated into 18 languages. With his volume of short stories, After Eternity , published by the Hollitzer Verlag in the German translation by Birgit Veit , he was on the shortlist of the 10th International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures . In the summer of 2018, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described him as the “new star of Russian contemporary literature ”. Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich , winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, says of his stories: “I love Maxim Osipov's prose. (...) His stories are like a precise, merciless diagnosis of Russian life. "

Awards

  • Kazakov Prize (2010)
  • Bunin Prize (2013)
  • Belkin Prize (2012 and 2014)
  • Shortlist 10th International Literature Prize, Berlin (2018)

Works (in German)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With the doctor's eye - Maxim Osipow is the new star of contemporary Russian literature . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 17, 2018 (accessed May 29, 2020).
  2. ^ Svetlana Alexievich in Praise of Maxim Osipov . In: Literary Hub , April 9, 2019 (accessed May 29, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Osipov, Maxim Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osipov, Maxim; Osipov, Maksim Aleksandrovič; Osipov, Maksim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cardiologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow