# Grey Bees

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{{Short description|Novel by Andrey Kurkov}}
{{Infobox book
| name              = Grey Bees
| title_orig        = Серые пчелы
| translator        = [Boris Dralyuk](/source/Boris_Dralyuk)
| image             = File:Grey Bees.jpg
| caption           = Ukrainian Cover
| author            = [Andrey Kurkov](/source/Andrey_Kurkov)
| illustrator       = 
| cover_artist      = 
| country           = [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine)
| language          = [Russian](/source/Russian_language)
| series            = 
| genre             = 
| publisher         = MacLehose Press (UK)
| release_date      = 2018
| english_release_date = May 14, 2020
| media_type        = Print (Paperback)
| pages             = 304
| isbn              = 978-0857059345
| oclc              = 
}}
'''''Grey Bees''''' ({{langx|uk|Сірі бджоли}}; {{langx|ru|Серые пчёлы}}) is a 2018 [novel](/source/novel) by [Ukrainian](/source/Ukraine) author [Andrey Kurkov](/source/Andrey_Kurkov).

It was translated by [Boris Dralyuk](/source/Boris_Dralyuk) and published in [English](/source/English_language) 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](/source/National_Book_Critics_Circle).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/03/24/announcing-the-2022-nbcc-award-winners/|title=Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners|publisher=National Book Critics Circle|first=David|last=Varno|date=March 24, 2023}}</ref> It was also translated into French by Paul Lequesne as ''Les Abeilles grises'', which won the 2022 [Prix Médicis étranger](/source/Prix_M%C3%A9dicis_%C3%A9tranger).<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lépine|first=Elise|date=8 November 2022|title=Prix Médicis étranger – Andreï Kourkov récompensé pour ''Les Abeilles grises''|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/livres/prix-medicis-etranger-andrei-kourkov-recompense-pour-les-abeilles-grises-08-11-2022-2496901_37.php|magazine=[Le Point](/source/Le_Point)|language=fr|access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref>

This novel has "elements of both the fable and the epic",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/grey-bees-andrey-kurkov-review-uilleam-blacker/|title=Apiculture|first=Uilleam|last=Blacker|website=[TLS](/source/Times_Literary_Supplement)|date=5 February 2021|access-date=13 March 2022}}</ref> and it dramatises the conflict in Ukraine through the adventures of a [beekeeper](/source/beekeeper).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/andrey-kurkov/grey-bees/9780857059369/|title=Grey Bees|date=11 May 2020 |publisher=Hachette|isbn=9780857059369 }}</ref>

In 2024, the novel was adapted as a feature film by Ukrainian director Dmytro Moysieiev. The film won several awards in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web | title=The winners of 2024 | website=Odesa International Film Festival | url=https://new.oiff.com.ua/en/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%86%D1%96-2024 | access-date=2025-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Amru | first=Oleksandra | title=The National Award of Film Critics 'Kinokolo' has declared the winners of 2024 | website=Бабель  | date=2024-10-18 | url=https://babel.ua/en/news/111807-the-national-award-of-film-critics-kinokolo-has-declared-the-winners-of-2024 | access-date=2025-10-26}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukrainian-novelist-andrey-kurkov-on-preserving-his-countrys-culture-during-war PBS NewsHour interview with Andrey Kurkov] (April 11, 2022)
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/books/review/belorusets-kurkov-lucky-breaks-grey-bees.html New York Times Review]

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Category:Novels by Andrey Kurkov
Category:2018 Russian novels
Category:21st-century Ukrainian novels
Category:Fiction about beekeeping
Category:Russian-Ukrainian culture
Category:Russian-language novels

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