Idiatullin, Shamil Shaukatovich

Shamil Idiatullin was born in 1971 in Ulyanovsk . He lived in Naberezhnye Chelny , Kazan , now lives in Moscow . Professionally working in journalism since 1988. For 9 years he collaborated with the Izvestia Tatarstan newspaper (later transformed into the republican business publication Time and Money), and in recent years as deputy editor-in-chief. At the same time, since 1994, he has been his own correspondent for the Kommersant Publishing House in Tatarstan .

In 2001, he became the chief editor of Kommersant in Kazan. Since November 2003, he has been working in the Moscow office of Kommersant Publishing House. Currently - head of the regional department.

Married, two children.

About the motives that made him turn to literary work, the author himself says this:

And one fine moment it turned out that now I’m no longer supposed to write, because I’m the deputy chief editor, and then the editor-in-chief — and the good editor-in-chief doesn’t write, his hands are journalists. I was not a very good editor-in-chief, because I still wrote a lot of things myself, but I honestly tried to improve myself. I stopped writing, but the habit of scouring, digging and unsubscribing remained. Letters, words and meanings accumulated, the glands responsible for this swelled and strangled - and one night I realized that resistance was useless. Quietly, so as not to wake anyone, he got out of bed, sat down at the keyboard and began to type the prologue of the novel. [one]

In 2005 (actually in December 2004 ^[1] ), the Krylov publishing house released the debut techno thriller Tatar Strike (the original title is Ruccia) ^[2] . The book received mixed reviews, but was generally well received by readers.

In 2006, the Znamya magazine published the novel Era of Aquarius; in 2010, the second USSR ™ novel was published, which was nominated for the 2010 National Bestseller Award, 2010 Big Book Award, Interpresscon and " Bronze snail " ^[3] . The novel received reviews in a wide range - from sharply negative ^[4] to very friendly ^[5] ; won the prize of the International Assembly of Fiction "Portal" in Kiev in 2011 .

In 2012, the publishing house "ABC" released the mystical thriller " Ubyr" ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]} under the pseudonym Nail Izmailov ^[10] . In the same year, the book received the Vladislav Krapivin International Children's Literary Prize and was recognized by the magazine Fantastic World as the book of the year in the nomination Mysticism and Horror. Idiatullin became the first winner of the New Horizons Prize .

In 2013, the continuation of the novel, Ubyr. No one will die. ” ^[11] An abridged version of the sequel was published on the Kniguru contest website ^[12] (as well as a stripped-down version of the first novel) under the original title “Ubyrly”. In 2018, the dilogy in one volume was reprinted ^{[13] by} the ABC under the author’s real name.

In 2013, the Meshcheryakov Publishing House published the spy thriller Warsaw Pact: the book was published under the title For the Elder. In 2016, in the series “Almost Adult Books” of the ABC Publishing House, under the pseudonym Nail Izmailov, a children's science fiction novel “This Is Just a Game” ^{[14] was released} . In March 2017, the ABC published Shamil Idiatullin’s novel Brezhnev City ^[15] , which in December of the same year won the Big Book Prize ^[16] (third place) and received third place in the readership poll. During the year, the novel was double-printed (on the dust jacket of the second edition there was the sign “Finalist of the Big Book Award”, on the dust jacket of the third edition “The Laureate of the Big Book Award 2017”), in the spring of 2018 with a circulation of 5 thousand copies. a ^[17] paperback came out.

Fiction

1. S. Idiatullin. Tatar strike. - St. Petersburg: Krylov, 2005. - S. 448. - (Modern fantastic adventure). - 8000 copies. - ISBN 5-94371-743-9 .
2. S. Idiatullin. USSR ™. - St. Petersburg: ABC classic, 2010. - S. 512. - (Russian project). - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9985-0868-4 . Second edition: - St. Petersburg: Alphabet, 2018. - P. 544 p. (Alphabet-bestseller. Russian prose). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-389-14610-5
3. S. Idiatullin (under the pseudonym Nail Izmailov). Gallop. - St. Petersburg: ABC-Atticus, 2012 .-- S. 320. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-389-03151-7 . Reissue of the dilogy in one volume under the author’s real name: - St. Petersburg: ABC, 2018. - P.608. (ABC bestseller. Russian prose). - 4000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-389-14699-0
4. S. Idiatullin (under the pseudonym Nail Izmailov). Gallop. No one will die. - St. Petersburg: ABC, 2013 .-- S. 320. - 4000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-389-03334-4 .
5. S. Idiatullin. For the elder. - M: ID Meshcheryakova, 2013 .-- S. 352. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-91045-593-5 .
6. S. Idiatullin (under the pseudonym Nail Izmailov). This is just a game. - St. Petersburg: ABC, 2016. - S. 192. - (Almost adult books). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-389-11005-2 .
7. S. Idiatullin. The city of Brezhnev. - St. Petersburg: ABC-Atticus, 2017 .-- S. 704. - (ABC-bestseller. Russian prose). - 6 500 (with additional prints) copies. - ISBN 978-5-389-12210-9 . ^[18]

Tales and Stories

1. S. Idiatullin. Era of Aquarius // “Banner” No. 6. - M. , 2006.
2. S. Idiatullin. Metabolism // Humpty Dumpty №3 . - Volgograd, 2009. Archived April 22, 2012 to Wayback Machine
3. Sh. Idiatullin. Brown-eyed Thunderbolt. - Russian children. - St. Petersburg: ABC, 2013 .-- ISBN 978-5-389-05721-0 .
4. Sh. Idiatullin. Tubagach. - M: Meshcheryakova Publishing House, 2018 .-- 32 p. - ISBN 978-5-00108-243-9 .

Articles

• 2007 Islam and Science Fiction -
• 2007 This fantastic war // "Power" - M.: April 2, 2007)
• Many articles on economic topics and journalism

• Prize winner V. I. Savchenko “Discovery of oneself” (Kiev, 2011, for the novel “USSR ™”) ^[19]
• Vladislav Krapivin International Children's Literary Prize for the book "Ubyr" (Yekaterinburg, November 26, 2012).
• Laureate of the New Horizons Prize (St. Petersburg, 2013, for the book Ubyr).
• Winner of the Big Book Prize ^[20] : third place in the official and in the readers' vote for the book “Brezhnev City” (2017). The book was also included in the short list of the “Reader's Award” ^[21] , which is awarded to the author of the best Russian-language book over the past year based on an analysis of the readership demand of the Russian State Library for Youth and the LitRes portal, as well as the final vote of the expert council consisting of library readers in age from 16 to 35 years.

• B-authors
• Biography on "FantLab"
• Interview with BUSINESS-online newspaper