作者簡介:安德烈.克考夫 ANDREJ KURKOW
1961年出生於聖彼得堡,幼年時遷居基輔。從六歲就開始提筆創作,嗜好是收集仙人掌。基輔大學就學期間主修外語,除了英文、日語,還會說九種不同的語言。曾當過記者、編輯,服役期間於奧德薩監獄擔任警衛,後來成為電影攝影師,寫過無數劇本,第一本小說獲得俄國書卷獎。現定居基輔。
「Kurkov lives in Kyiv with his English wife, Elizabeth, and their three children. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he became an internally displaced person and continued to write and broadcast about the war. A bilingual, native Russian speaker, in a 2022 interview Kurkov speculated that Russia’s war on Ukraine, rather than suppress Ukrainian culture and identity, would potentially have the opposite effect, encouraging Ukrainian writers, especially those whose native language is Russian, to publish increasingly, or even exclusively, in Ukrainian.」