Andrey Kurkov





Andrey Kurkov

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born
in Budogoszcz, Russian Federation
April 23, 1961

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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.


Average rating: 3.81 · 4,147 ratings · 486 reviews · 18 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 2,652 ratings — published 1996 — 36 editions
Penguin Lost
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A Matter Of Death And Life
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
The President's Last Love
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4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Der Gärtner von Otschakow
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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