Andrey Kurkov

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born

April 23, 1961 in Budogoszcz, Russian Federation

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male

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Literature & Fiction, Humor

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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 languages such as English, French, Japanease, Georgian and Polish. He became a Japanese trained translator.

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Books by Andrey Kurkov

Average rating: 3.78 · 2,216 ratings · 297 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Death and the Penguin 3.80 avg rating — 1,476 ratings — published 1996 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Penguin Lost 3.74 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Matter of Death and Life 3.72 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The President's last love 3.79 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Case of the General's Thumb 3.34 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Good Angel of Death 3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Milkman in the Night by Andrey Kurkov, Amanda Love Darragh (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Penguin Novels 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Petrowitsch by Andrey Kurkov, Christa Vogel, Andrej Kurkow (German transcription) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Le caméléon by Andrey Kurkov, Christine Zeytounian-Belous (Translator) 2.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Andrey Kurkov

Le pingouin (2 books)
by Andrey Kurkov

3.79 avg rating — 1,802 ratings

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