What is Andrey Kurkov?
{{Infobox person | name = Andrey Kurkov | image = RK2411 6II0466 Andrij Kurkow-2.jpg | caption = Andrei Kurkov in Poland, 2024 | birth_name = Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov | birth_date = {{birth date and age|23 April 1961|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Leningrad]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]] | nationality = [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] | education = Kyiv Foreign Languages Institute | alma_mater = | spouse = | occupation = Writer }} '''Andrey Kurkov''' (born 1961) is a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] writer who writes in Russian. He is the author of 19 [[novel]]s; One of them is the [[bestseller]], ''[[Death and the Penguin]]''. He is the chief of [[PEN]] in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nrk.no/kultur/kurkov_-_-nordmenn-trenger-a-lese-om-landet-vart-1.15874470. [[NRK]]. Retrieved March 7, 2022</ref> As of 2024, he writes war [[diary|diaries]].<ref>https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/28145. Retrieved 2024-02-16</ref> ==Works== Books translated to English, Death and the Penguin, year 2001 Penguin Lost, 2005 A Matter of Death and Life, 2005 The Penguin Novels, 2006 The Case of the General's Thumb, 2009 The World of Mr Big Forehead The President's Last Love, 2009 The Good Angel of Death, 2010 The Milkman in the Night, 2011 The Gardener from Ochakov, 2013 The Bickford Fuse, 2016 Grey Bees, 2020 Diary from an Invasion 2022 ==Related pages== *[[List of Russian-language novelists]] ==Sources== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurkov, Andrey}} [[Category:Ukrainian writers]] [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:Living people]] {{bio-stub}}