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Also known as Andrei Kurkov, Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov, Andriy Yuriyovych Kurkov, Andriy Kurkov

Ukrainian writer (born 1961)

OverviewAI-generated

Andrey Kurkov is a person born on April 23, 1961. He is associated with the country of RU. His author name is listed as Andrei Kurkov.

Kurkov has seven works, including *Three Years on Fire*, *Stolen Heart*, *Ukraine at War*, *Our Daily War*, and *Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv*. Crossref lists five works for him. On Last.fm, his name is Andrey Kurkov, with four listeners and a playcount of 44. He is referenced by 55 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 12 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Three Years on Fire
  • Stolen Heart
  • Ukraine at War
  • Our Daily War
  • Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
RU

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
44

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andrey+Kurkov">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Andrey Kurkov

Key facts

Born
( 1961-04-23 ) 23 April 1961 (age 65) , Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Education
Kyiv Foreign Languages Institute
Occupation
Writer

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov (Ukrainian: Андрій Юрійович Курков, IPA: [ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ij ˈjur⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪtʃ kʊrˈkɔu̯]; born 23 April 1961) 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, Persian and Hebrew, and published in 65 countries. Kurkov, who has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the international media, notably in Europe and the United States, has written assorted articles for various publications worldwide. His books are full of black humour, post-Soviet reality and elements of surrealism.

Life and works

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrey Kurkov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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