Andrey Kurkov

Kurkov is a writer, journalist, and the current president of PEN Ukraine. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin. His latest novel is Grey Bees

In Ukraine, Fiction Has Lost Its Meaning

Thanks to the support of the democratic part of humanity, Ukraine has been fighting for its freedom for two and a half months against the Russian army, which is much larger, but, as it turned...

By Andrey Kurkov May 24, 2022

Russia's Game in Ukraine

Putin does not want to risk a takeover. But he does want another pliant leader in Kiev

By Andrey Kurkov April 17, 2014

Why Putin Won't Hold Crimea

He knows the peninsula can't survive without the rest of Ukraine. So what's his next move?

By Andrey Kurkov March 6, 2014

What the West Doesn't Understand About Ukraine's Politics

Behind the divisions in today's Ukraine is a post-Soviet oligarchy rooted in the industrial East

By Andrey Kurkov February 27, 2014