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Born near Leningrad in 1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel Death and the Penguin, his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. He is also known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev, was published in 2014.
Ukraine's greatest living novelist Charlie Connelly, New EuropeanBooks of the Year Praise for Grey Bees A latter-day Bulgakov . . . A Ukrainian Murakami Phoebe Taplin,Guardian A post-Soviet Kafka Colin Freeman, Daily Telegraph Strange and mesmerising . . . In spare prose, Ukraine's most famousnovelist unsparingly examines the inhuman confusions of our moderntimes John Thornhill, Financial Times Praise for Death and The Penguin A tragicomic masterpiece Daily Telegraph A black comedy of rare distinction Spectator A striking portrait of post-Soviet isolation . . . In this bleak morallandscape Kurkov manages to find ample refuge for his dark humour New York Times
