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Maxim Osipov (b. 1963) is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, before returning to Moscow, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical, musical, and theological texts. In 2005, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa, a small town ninety miles from Moscow, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital's survival. Since 2007, he has published short stories, novellas, essays, and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published six collections of prose, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov's writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lived in Tarusa up until February 2022. He lives in Amsterdam. Boris Dralyuk is a poet, a translator, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a translator of Maxim Osipov's Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories, Lev Ozerov's Portraits Without Frames, and a co-translator of Pushkin's Peter the Great's African, all published by NYRB Classics.
. . . damning, and at times extremely funny. . . .[the] latest, brilliant collection of Osipov's works. -Francesca Peacock, The Spectator World Now is a difficult time to empathise with Russians - which is why we need Maxim Osipov. We need him to bring alive to us what it means to live in Putin's Russia. . . .we need him to remind us of the kaleidoscope of qualities that a country like Russia inevitably contains - the humanity and generosity as well as the stupidity and cruelty. . . . when the world is deciding how to deal with the aftermath of Putin's. . .defeat, I hope Kilometer 101 will be admitted in the Russian people's defence. -Charlotte Hobson, The Spectator (UK) By extending his self-deprecating tone to the mood of an entire country, the author succeeds at conveying the faded hopes of a generation. -Publishers Weekly
