Sergei Lukyanenko

Sergei Lukyanenko is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author who writes in Russian. Born in 1968 in Karatau, Kazakh SSR, he trained as a psychiatrist at the Alma-Ata State Medical Institute before turning to writing full time, and has lived in Moscow since 1996. He is best known for the Watch series, which begins with Night Watch, and also wrote Labyrinth of Reflections, Spectrum, Genome and Knights of Forty Islands. His work has won the Kurd Lasswitz Award (2008) and the Phantastik Preis (2010).