Andrey is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian and Ukrainian. He is the author of over 20 novels and 10 books for children. His work has been translated into 37 languages. He has also written articles for various publications worldwide including ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘New Statesman’, ‘La Liberation’, ‘Le Monde’ and ‘Die Welt, Die Zeit’. Andrey is also involved in filmscript-writing. His own film adaptation of “The Matter of Death and Life” got him shortlisted for Best European Filmscript-Writer of the Year Award in Berlin 1997.(The film’s title is “The Friend of the Deceased” (France-Ukraine, 1997).