All posts tagged Andrey Kurkov

Andrii Yuriyovych Kurkov (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.

Grey Bees

Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees has elements of both the fable and the epic and it dramatizes the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper and his frenemy in what seems to be in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.

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