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Andrey Kurkov

Born

in Budogoszcz, Soviet Union

April 23, 1961

Twitter

@AKurkov

Genre

Detective, Contemporary, Fiction

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Andrey Kurkov is a Russian and Ukrainian writer who writes in Russian (fiction) and Ukrainian (non-fiction).

Kurkov was born in the small town of Budogoszcz, Russia, on April 23, 1961. When he was young, his family moved to Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1983 Kurkov graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Academy of Foreign Languages and later also completed a training in Japanese translation.

Among Kurkov's most famous Russian novels are 'Smert postoronnego' (1996, translated into English in 2001 under the title 'Death and the Penguin') and 'Zakon ulitki' (2002, translated into English in 2005 as 'Penguin lost)'. Kurkov's only Ukrainian non-fiction book is 'Ruh "Emanus": istoriya solidarnosti' (2017). ...more

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	Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, George Bird (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 22,226 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 8,366 ratings — published 2018 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penguin Lost 3.82 avg rating — 2,653 ratings — published 2005 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Bone (Kyiv Mysteries #1) 3.44 avg rating — 2,766 ratings — published 2018 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Matter оf Death аnd Life 3.69 avg rating — 1,838 ratings — published 1999 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diary of an Invasion 4.15 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov, Amanda Love Darragh (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov, Reuben Wooley (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 765 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov, Sam Taylor (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 2014 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Milkman in the Night 3.78 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Andrey Kurkov

Пикник на льду (2 books)
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3.78 avg rating — 24,879 ratings

Kyiv Mysteries / Samson und Nadjeschda (3 books)
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География одиночного выстрела (3 books)
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Quotes by Andrey Kurkov (?)

“The past believed in dates. And everyone’s life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin

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“Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin

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“Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine Diaries

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Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine

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Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

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The Winter Queen: A Novel by Boris Akunin

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The Yellow Arrow by Victor Pelevin

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Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross

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