Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian author who writes in both Russian and Ukrainian, and he has published nineteen novels along with nine books for children. He is best known for Death and the Penguin, and his other novels include Grey Bees, The President's Last Love, and The Silver Bone, the first of the Kyiv Mysteries. Kurkov has long commented on Ukraine for international media, and his books are full of black humour and touches of surrealism.