His experience of moving to a new country inspired Shishkin to write Russian Switzerland / Русская Швейцария, a nonfiction literary-historical guide. Nezavisimaya gazeta wrote: "A beautiful, powerful and fascinating book which will become a milestone not only in the history of Russian literature but in the development of Russian self-awareness." In 2000 the novel won Russian Booker Prize for the best Russian novel of the year. In 1999, Znamya published Shishkin's breakthrough novel The Taking of Izmail. Fred Kaplan called Mikhail Shishkin in Boston Globe "one of Moscow´s most wellregarded young novelists". His first publications attracted the attention of literary critics and Shishkin received the Prize for the Best Debut of the Year. Later this novel was published under the title Larionov's Reminiscences / Записки Ларионова. His first novel One Night Befalls Us All ( Omnes una manet nox) / Всех ожидает одна ночь also appeared the same year in Znamya.
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