Andrej Kurkow, born in St. Petersburg in 1961, has lived in Kyiv since childhood and writes in Russian. He studied foreign languages, was a newspaper editor and, during his military service, a prison guard, and wrote numerous screenplays. He is considered to be one of Ukraine’s most important contemporary writers and is nominated for the ›International Booker Prize‹ 2023 with Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv. Andrej Kurkow’s works have been published in 42 languages. He has been a freelance author since 1996 and lives in Ukraine with his family.