Andriy Kokotiukha was born in 1970 in Nizhyn. His father was a welder and his mother a nurse. He worked at various jobs before graduating from Faculty of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1992. He has worked as a journalist, film and TV scriptwriter and writer. He has written more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books. -- themodernnovel.org