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Andrey Kurkov
Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish…
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culture · Ukrainian writer (born 1961) · writer · screenwriter · journalist · editing staff · translator · film screenwriter · university teacher · film actor · children's writer · also Andrey Kurkov, Andrei Kurkov, Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov, Andriy Yuriyovych Kurkov, Andriy Kurkov, Kurkov
Born 23 April 1961 · Q356965
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Andrey Kurkov: ‘At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago’
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov – droll detective work in revolutionary Kyiv
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Yahoo: Andrey Kurkov: ‘I expected Putin to escalate – but not to bomb us like Hitler’
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The Guardian: Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov: ‘I felt guilty writing fiction in a time of war’
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Kurkov released The Silver Bone, the first in a new series of detective novels titled "The Kyiv Mysteries"
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – bittersweet relic of a sunnier age
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Yahoo: Andrey Kurkov, Maryse Condé on International Booker list
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The Guardian: The hope for ordinary Ukrainians in 2023 is the victorious return of their country – and of the light | Andrey Kurkov
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2022· 7 entries
The Guardian: Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov review – Ukrainian life turned upside down
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The Guardian: Andrey Kurkov: from novelist to Ukraine’s travelling spokesman
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Awarded Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (2022).
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Awarded Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize for Grey Bees (2022).
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The Guardian: ‘I’m not scared of war any more’: Death and the Penguin author Andrey Kurkov on life in Kyiv
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The Guardian: Putin’s bombs and missiles rain down, but he will never destroy Ukraine’s culture | Andrey Kurkov
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The Guardian: I have run out of words for the horror of Putin’s crimes in Ukraine | Andrey Kurkov
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2018· 1 entry
Was elected as the President of PEN Ukraine
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Bickford Fuse by Andrey Kurkov review – a Soviet Pilgrim’s Progress
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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The Guardian: Andrei Kurkov to publish Ukraine crisis diaries
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The Guardian: Ukraine 'abandoned' by Europe, says novelist Andrey Kurkov
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2009· 1 entry
In Russian, and in Boris Dralyuk's English-language translation in 2016 by MacLehose Press) was characterised by Sam Leith in The Financial Times as "a sort of cross between The Pilgrim's Progress, Catch-22, Heart of Dar
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1983· 1 entry
From the Kyiv Foreign Languages Institute as a trained Japanese translator, Kurkov was assigned military service assisting the KGB
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-04-23.
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