Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian and is one of the most internationally celebrated authors to emerge from the former Soviet Union. His darkly comic novels, including Death and the Penguin, The Good Angel of Death, and Grey Bees, are known for their deadpan humour, surreal premises, and sharp political observation. Death and the Penguin — about a struggling writer and his pet penguin in post-Soviet Kyiv — became a cult classic worldwide. Kurkov's audiobooks offer listeners wryly funny, deeply original fiction that illuminates life in the post-Soviet world with warmth and absurdist wit.