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Andrey Kurkov
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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
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 44
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andrey+Kurkov">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,044x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,556x
- MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks
· 2018 · cited 21,912x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2011 · cited 10,651x
via Crossref · CC0
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
~5 min read
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.