Andrei Kivinov

Kivinov's first book – "A Nightmare on Strikes Street" ("Koshmar na Ulitse Stachek") – was written in his spare time for the amusement of his friends and colleagues.

Since 1994, he has published one book a year, with most of his works falling into the detective crime genre, although some of his novels do explore more lyrical and romantic themes.

Some of his more popular works include, "Doomed Cop"("Ment Obrechennii"), "The Trail of the Boomerang"("Sled Bumeranga"), "Die Cast"("Umirat Podano"), "High Voltage"("Visokoe Napriazhenie") and "Saucer Full of Secrets"("Polnoe Bludse Sekretov").

This series went on for six seasons, a total of 60 episodes and was filmed in locations all over the world – (USA, South Africa, France and Estonia).

The Russian TV Channel Channel One secured the film rights for Kivinov's six latest novels – "Black Gelding", "It's Hard to be Macho", "Maximum Security Holiday"("Kanikuli Strogogo Rezhima"), "Decoy"("Podsadnoi"), "Odnoklassnitsa.ru" and "Three Days Without Love"("Tri Dnia bez Lubvi").

Winner of two TEFI awards (Russia National TV Prize for the highest achievements in the field of Television Arts and Sciences, established by the Fund "Academy of Russian Television") in the category "Best Russian TV Series" Winner of "Nevsky Prospekt" award.

Entered in the St Petersburg Book of Records as the creator of the longest running TV series in the history of Russian television for "Streets of Broken Lights".