Sergey Vassilievich Lukyanenko was born in 1968 in Kazakhstan, then a republic of the Soviet Union.
He spent his early childhood in the small mining town of Karatau, meaning Black Mountains. While he was still young, he and his family moved to a city called Djambul, where Sergey completed his schooling, leaving with excellent grades.
Sergey's father is a psychiatrist, his mother a narcologist, and his elder brother a cardiologist and it was expected that he too would join the medical profession. He entered the Alma-Ata (Kasakhstan) Medical University in 1985, where he met a student psychologist, Sofia, who was later to become his wife. His life changed significantly during his university years: he began to write science fiction, his work was published in magazines, he was invited to attend literature conferences and his first books were published. Though he still completed his medical course, Sergey realised that he would never work as a doctor.
In 1997, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Sergey and Sofia moved to Moscow. Each year after that, Sergey had at least two books published. Many became best sellers and won science fiction awards. In 2004 his book The Night Watch was released as a film and had record box office receipts in Russia. His book The Day Watch became a film in 2006 and was also a box office hit. Lukyanenko's books have been translated into more than twenty languages and continue to be hugely popular.
Sergey and Sofia now have two young sons, Artemiy and Daniel, for whom he plans to write a series of fairytales.
You can find out more information by visiting Lukianenko's web site.
Website:
http://www.lukianenko.ru/eng
Bibliography:
The Atomic Dream (Krasnoyarski: LIA "Inform", 1992)
The Knights of Forty Islands (St. Petersburg: Terra Fantastice, 1992)
The Lord from the Planet Earth (Almaty: LIA Nomad, 1994)
The Lord from the Planet Earth (Trilogy) (Minsk: "Literature", 1996)
Emperors of Illusion (Moscow: Lokid, 1996)
The Postponed Punishment (Kiev: Krang; Kharkov: Folio, 1996)
The Isle of Rusj (Moscow: Aegus, 1997)
The Autumn Visits (Moscow: Lokid, 1997)
The Labyrinth of Reflections (Moscow: AST, 1997)
Stars are Cold Toys (Moscow: AST, 1997)
Wrong Time for Dragons, written with Nick Perumov (Moscow: Eksmo, 1997)
The Star Shadow (Moscow: AST, 1998)
The Night Watch (Moscow, AST, 1998)
Cold Shores (Moscow: AST, 1998)
False Mirrors (Moscow: AST, 1999)
"L" Stands for "People" (Moscow: AST, 1999)
Genome (Moscow: AST, 1999)
The Day Watch, written with V. Vassilyev (Moscow: AST, 2000)
The Morning is Coming (Moscow: AST, 2000)
Dances in the Snow (Moscow: AST, 2001)
Spectrum (Moscow: AST, 2002)
The Watch (Moscow: AST, 2004)
The Gadget (Moscow: AST, 2004)
The Draft (Moscow: AST, Trausitknipe, 2006)
The Twilight Watch (Moscow: AST, 2006)
The Last Watch (Moscow: AST, 2006)
The Final Draft (Moscow: AST, 2007)
The Beautiful Far Away (Moscow: AST, 2007)
The Megapolis Myths (Moscow: AST, 2007)
Credo (Moscow: AST, 2007)
The End of the Legend (Moscow: AST, Harvest, 2008)
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