Born near Leningrad in1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist.
In2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly ..
He is a co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry , and has translated Isaac Babel\'s Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories , as well as Kurkov\'s The Bickford Fuse .
He taught Russian literature for a number of years at UCLA and at the University of St Andrews.
Boris Dralyuk is an award-winning translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books .
He lives in Kiev with his British wife and their three children.
His work of reportage, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev , was published in 2014, followed by the novel The Bickford Fuse (MacLehose Press, 2016).
As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media.
His novel Death and the Penguin , his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages.
He received hundreds of rejections and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than75,000 copies of his books in a single year.
Born near Leningrad in1961, Andrey Kurkov was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist
