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  <name><![CDATA[Andrei Kurkov]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ukrainian writer writing in Russian. He was born in small town Budogoszcz in Leningrad area. In 1983 in Kiev he graduated Kiev Pedagogical Academy of Foreign Languages. He started writing in age of six and he had a hobby of collecting cactuses - he collected nearly 1,500 of them. Ambitiously he wanted to learn their latin names. Thanks to that he had learned such a lanuages as English, French, Japanease, Georgian and Polish. He became a Japanese trained translator.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Budogoszcz</hometown>  <born_at>04/23/1961</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Death and the Penguin]]></title>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Penguin Lost]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Matter of Death and Life]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The President's Last Love]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Case of the General's Thumb]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Les pingouins n'ont jamais froid]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Deadman's Buddy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[L'Ami du défunt]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andrei Kurkov]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Piknik na ledu]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andrei Kurkov]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Penguin Novels]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Andrei Kurkov]]></name>
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