Grey Bees Explained

Grey Bees
Title Orig:Серые пчелы
Translator:Boris Dralyuk
Author:Andrey Kurkov
Country:Ukraine
Language:Russian
Publisher:MacLehose Press (UK)
Release Date:2018
English Release Date:May 14, 2020
Media Type:Print (Paperback)
Pages:304
Isbn:978-0857059345

Grey Bees is a novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Originally published in 2018, it translated by Boris Dralyuk and published in English in 2020 (by MacLehose Press, UK) and in 2022 (by Deep Vellum, USA), winning the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle.[1] It was also translated into French by Paul Lequesne as Les Abeilles grises, which won the 2022 Prix Médicis étranger.[2]

This novel has "elements of both the fable and the epic",[3] and it dramatises the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a beekeeper.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners. National Book Critics Circle. David. Varno. March 24, 2023.
  2. Lépine. Elise. 8 November 2022. Prix Médicis étranger – Andreï Kourkov récompensé pour Les Abeilles grises. Le Point. fr. 11 November 2022.
  3. Web site: Apiculture. Uilleam. Blacker. TLS. 5 February 2021. 13 March 2022.
  4. Book: Grey Bees. 11 May 2020 . Hachette. 9780857059369 .