Collection of short stories and short stories. Popov Mikhail Mikhailovich was born in 1957 in Kharkov. He graduated in 1983 from the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky. For the first time, Mikhail Popov's poems were published in the almanac "Poetry Day" in 1980. Prose debut - the story "Pampering of Fate" ("Literary Study," 1983). Mikhail Popov is the author of more than 30 books that are of great interest to readers. A number of his works have been published abroad. Popov's work was awarded prizes to them. V. Shukshin (1992), I. Bunin (1997) and A. Platonov (2000), as well as the prize of the Moscow Government (2002) and the international prize "Moscow - Penne" (2011).