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Mihail Urevich Elizarov
Михаил Елизаров
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Mikhail Elizarov was born in 1973, on January 28, in Ivanovo-Frankivsk. Upon graduation he entered the Faculty of Philology of Kharkiv University. In 1991, he served in the army (February to May), and then returned to his course. He studied at the music school in the class of opera vocals. Since 1996, he has been working as an operator on Kharkiv state television, and also studies at the Institute of Culture (TV Directing). Since 1992, the first poetic publications begin, and the first story “Drop”,
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Mikhail Elizarov was born in 1973, on January 28, in Ivanovo-Frankivsk. Upon graduation he entered the Faculty of Philology of Kharkiv University. In 1991, he served in the army (February to May), and then returned to his course. He studied at the music school in the class of opera vocals.
Since 1996, he has been working as an operator on Kharkiv state television, and also studies at the Institute of Culture (TV Directing). Since 1992, the first poetic publications begin, and the first story “Drop”, which later became part of the collection “Tongues”, Michael wrote in 1990. By the way, this collection, published in the publishing house “Ad Marginem” in 2001, attracted the attention of the writer. It consisted of 24 stories and a story of the same name, where two boarding school pupils act as the main characters. According to the author, he worked on this book from 1991 to 1999.
From 2003 to 2007, Elizarov lives in Berlin, where he went to study. He wrote the novel Pasternak (2003). The author calls him “Sunday Child” because he wrote only on weekends and spent the rest of his time studying. The book received mixed reviews. Someone said it was a nauseating romance. Others compared the writer with Milorad Pavic and Umberto Eco, since, in their opinion, the erudition and philology of the text of Elizarov in no way inferior to them.
In 2006, the writer had a daughter. In 2007, a new novel “The Librarian” was released, which a year later became the winner of the “Russian Booker” award. The hero of the novel discovers that some books of the Soviet writer have mystical properties, and some readers fiercely fight for the right to possess them. For the writer himself, 2008 was furious but also fruitful, as he wrote a number of short stories included in the collection “Cubes”. And in 2009, the novel “Cartoons” was released.