Boris Akunin

BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who
was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956. A philologist,
critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, he published
his first detective stories in 1998 and quickly became one of
the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written ten
Erast Fandorin novels to date, which have sold more than
eight million copies in Russia and been translated into
nearly two dozen languages. He lives in Moscow.