Andrey Kurkov

Andrei Kurkov Jurjewitsch (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Курков, Ukrainian Андрій Юрійович Курков / Andriy Kurkov Jurijowytsch; born April 23, 1961 in Budugoschtsch, Leningrad Oblast ) is a Russian-language writer from Kiev.

Life

Kurkov, born in Russia, lived since early childhood in Kiev and graduated in 1983 at the Ankara State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages ​​a degree. He speaks eleven - according to your own younger information today only seven - Foreign languages ​​and worked in different jobs, including editor, prison guards and cameraman. Since 1988 he is a member of the London PEN Club, since 1996 he lives temporarily in London. Around 18 documentary and feature film screenplays written by him; his novels have been translated into numerous languages, including German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Turkish.

His novels are characterized by a sharp, ironic view of life in post-Soviet society. Despite abstruse, to the extreme or surreal situations alienated from the Ukrainian or Russian life Kurkov never loses the seriously - loving glance at his figures.

Works

  • ( Не приведи меня в Кенгаракс, 1991)
  • (11 необыкновенностей, 1991)
  • ( мир Бикфордов, 1993) as co-author
  • Picnic on the ice, 1999 ( Смерть постороннего, 1996; later edition under the title: Пикник на льду, 2005), ISBN 3-257-23255-1 - German by Christa Vogel
  • Petrovich, 2002 ( Добрый ангел смерти, 1997), ISBN 3-257-06247-8 - German by Christa Vogel
  • A friend of the deceased, 2001 ( Милый друг, товарищ покойника ) ISBN 3-257-06239-7 - German by Christa Vogel
  • Penguins do not freeze (2003), ISBN 3-257-06377-6 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • Do not be afraid of the dark, 2004, ISBN 3-908713-06-4 - German by Angelika Schneider
  • The last love of the President ( Последняя любовь президента, 2005, ISBN 5-94278-920-7 ), 2005, ISBN 3-257-06486-1 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • ( Закон улитки, 2005, ISBN 5-94278-967-3 )
  • ( Любимая песня космополита, 2006, ISBN 5-367-00271-4 )
  • ( Сады господина Мичурина, 2006, ISBN 5-367-00172-6 )
  • Myzelistan or: " ... global warming at a few picked out point " ( bilingual German and Russian, translated by Judith Merkushev ). Berlin: Katzengraben Press 2006, ISBN 3-910178-59-6
  • Autumn Fire, 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06606-7 - German by Angelika Schneider
  • The Milkman in the Night, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06727-9 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • The true folk inspector, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-679-5 - German Kerstin Mondschein
  • The gardener of Otshakoff, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-06814-6 - German by Sabine Grebing
  • The indomitable parrot, Haymon Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3709970126 - German by Sabine Grebing

Screenplays

  • ( Исход, 1990)
  • The Pit ( Яма, 1991, Drama )
  • ( Воскресный побег, 1992)
  • ( Ночь о любви, 1992)
  • ( Елисейские поля, 1993 melodrama )
  • Picnic on the ice ( Смерть постороннего, 1996)
  • A friend of the deceased ( Приятель покойника, 1997)
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