Maxim Osipov

Maxim Osipov is a Russian writer and cardiologist. He has published short stories, novellas, essays and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. Osipov’s writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Rock, Paper, Scissors (NYRB Classics). ‘An English Opening’ is an extract from the story ‘Pieces on a Plane’ from Kilometer 101, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Alex Fleming, and forthcoming in October from NYRB Classics.