Андрій Курков
Born 1961 · Ukraine
BBC Ukrainian Book 2018 · Shortlist
Серые пчелы · Serye pchely
Andrey Kurkov · 57 when first published
Novel · 298 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Only two people remain in a village in the grey zone of the Donbas war: the beekeeper Serhii Serhiiovych and his old classmate and opposite, Pashka. When spring comes, Serhiiovych sets out to take his six hives somewhere free of shooting.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2017 · Shortlist
Shengenskaia istoriia
Title translated by AI:“A Schengen Story”
Andrey Kurkov · 55 when first published
Novel · 715 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:At midnight on 21 December 2007, as Lithuania joins the Schengen area, three young couples gather at a farmstead to celebrate and share their plans to move to London, Paris and Italy, trusting that Europe will not let them down.