Alexey Pehov - Shadow Prowler

Pehov’s 2004 novel, UNDER THE SIGN OF THE MANTIKOR, has been met by readers and critics no less favorably. At the international fantasy convention Portal (held in Kiev, Ukraine), the book received awards for qualitative growth of literary skill.

In the same year, 2004, Russia’s largest fantasy magazine, World of Fantasy(selected as Best Magazine, Europe-2006 by the European Science Fiction Society, ESFS), named UNDER THE SIGN OF THE MANTIKOR The Book of Year, as well as the best novel in the genre of fantasy.

Alexey Pehov’s fantasy series THE WIND AND THE SPARKS (the first book, SELECTORS OF A WIND, was published in 2005; the second book, THE WIND OF A WORMWOOD, in 2006) was selected again by the Russian fantasy community as the best series of 2006 and also received the Silver Kaduzei award.

Pehov’s stories and novels are published in leading Russian fantasy magazines and anthologies on a regular basis. The author’s story collection, THE DARK HUNTER, by the end of 2006, had become the most commercially successful fantasy collection in Russia. At Eurokon 2006 (held in Kiev, Ukraine), Alexey Pehov was nominated for a rank of the best selling young European short stories fantasy writer in the (ESFS).

Alexey Pehov was born on March 30th, 1978. He completed his studies at Moscow State Medical University with an internship and postgraduate study at the Central Science Institute, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; he specialized in orthodontics. He is married to Elena Bychkova, a professional journalist and science fiction writer; they have written some novels together.