Alexander Estis (Russian: Александр Николаевич Эстис; born 20 September 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian-Swiss author, translator and journalist.

[1][2][3] He finished the Johannes Brahms High School in Pinneberg in 2004 and graduated from the Language Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg in 2010.

[1][2][3] As a writer, Estis works mainly in the genre of flash fiction (aphorisms, lyrical and stage miniatures, glosses, micronarratives, epigrams, essays), combining elements of essayism and speculative fiction, satirical and tragic devices, as well as traditional and rhythmic prose.

He collaborates with German publishers Hochroth [de][4] and parasitenpresse [de],[5] at the same time contributing as a reviewer, observer and columnist to leading German-language media, including Die Zeit,[6] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,[7] Frankfurter Rundschau,[8] Neues Deutschland,[9] Süddeutsche Zeitung,[10] The European[11] (Germany), Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[12] WOZ Die Wochenzeitung[13] (Switzerland).

His prosaic works, translations, critical and philological articles have been published in Sinn und Form (Germany), Lichtungen [de] (Austria), entwürfe [de] (Switzerland), Inostrannaya Literatura [ru], Literaturnaya Ucheba [ru], Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Russia) and other noted literary magazines and newspapers.