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Maksim Osipov - vrach-kardiolog, izdatel', prozaik, laureat neskol'kih literaturnyh premij, prisuzhdaemyh za maluju prozu. Ego sochinenija perevedeny bolee chem na dvadcat' inostrannyh jazykov. "Sventa" - samyj polnyj iz kogda-libo publikovavshihsja v Rossii sbornikov povestej, rasskazov i ocherkov Osipova. V ego proze sosedstvujut medicina, politika, teatr, muzyka, religioznaja zhizn', zhizn' v provincii i v jemigracii, blagotvoritel'nost', dazhe shahmaty. Sobrannye vse vmeste, jeti proizvedenija risujut zhivuju kartinu peremen, kotorye proizoshli za poltora desjatiletija s rossijskim obshhestvom. Nesmotrja na prisushhij proze Osipova lirizm i jumor, ego proizvedenija polny predchuvstvij teh tragicheskih povorotov istorii, kotorye zastavili i samogo avtora pokinut' stranu.
"Sobytija nedavnie naplyvajut odno na drugoe, slepljajutsja v kuchu, sluchivsheesja smeshivaetsja s nikogda ne byvshim, zato dalekoe - begstvo iz shkoly, ispovedal'naja lodka na beregu, lipa na ulice Pushkina - viditsja blizkim, schastlivym -bezmerno bolee, chem predstavljalos' togda".
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Maxim Alexandrovich Osipov born 4 October 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist.[1] His short stories and essays have won a number of prizes, and his plays have been staged and broadcast on the radio in Russia.
Biography
Osipov was born in Moscow and received his medical training at the Russian National Research Medical University. In the early 1990s, he was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Upon returning to Moscow, he continued to practice medicine, co-authored a textbook on clinical cardiology, and founded a publishing house, Practica, which specialized in medical, musical, and theological material. After moving to Tarusa, a town 101 kilometers from Moscow, Osipov began working at the local hospital. He also established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital's survival and to improve its standard of care.He lived, wrote, and practiced medicine in Tarusa until March 2022. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine he left Russia. He first travelled to Armenia and then to Germany.
Literary career
Osipov made his literary debut in 2007, in the journal Znamya, with a lyrical essay on his experiences in Tarusa. He has since published several volumes of fiction and non-fiction and his works have been translated into 18 languages. His debut collection in English, Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson, appeared in April 2019 from NYRB Classics, followed by a second compilation (Kilometer 101) in 2022.