Andrey Kurkov

Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 23 Apr 1961
Activity 1996-ongoing

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Ukraine; Russia

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Novelist

Resources

Andrei Iur’evich Kurkov, born in 1961 in the village of Budogoshch in the Kirishi district of the Leningrad region, to the family of a military pilot, is a Ukrainian national whose Russian-language fiction has been translated into over 30 languages. The joint print-run of his books, including translations, has reportedly exceeded four million copies, and he has been promoted by some of his publishers as the best known modern author of Russian fiction in Europe. A graduate of the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute (1983), he is fluent in Ukrainian, English, German and Japanese, and regularly contributes to Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Weltwoche, Die Welt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Libération</…

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Citation: Rogatchevski, Andrei. "Andrey Kurkov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 October 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12101, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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