Real name - Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (Russian: Борис Акунин; Georgian: გრიგორი შალვას ძე ჩხარტიშვილი; Аlso see Grigory Chkhartishvili), born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1956. Since 1958 he lives in Moscow. Writer and translator from Japanese. Author of crime stories set in tsarist Russia. In 1998 he made his debut with novel Azazel (to English readers known as The Winter Queen), where he created Erast Pietrovich Fandorin. B. Akunin refers to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin and Akuna, home name of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet. In September of 2000, Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the "Antibooker" prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs. Akunin also created crime-solving Orthodox nun, sister Pelagia, and literary genres. His pseudonyms are Анатолий Брусникин and Анна Борисова. In some Dutch editions he is also known as Boris Akoenin.

2008 - Мартовские коты (соавтор) - Глория Му «Гадина», «Львиное сердце» 2009 - Вернуться по следам, роман АСТ 2009 - Зато ты очень красивый (соавтор) - Глория Му «Жонглеры», повесть, АСТ 2010 - Лисья Честность (соавтор) Глория Му «Ясно», «Хорошие собаки», рассказы, АСТ 2012 - Детская книга для девочек, Глория Му по сценарию Бориса Акунина, роман, АСТ 2013 - Вернуться по следам, роман АСТ 2020 - Аятори. Игра в Джарт, история первая. Аудиокнига, читает Денис Никифоров 2021 - Ratbag by Gloria Mu, translated by Simon Hollingsworth 2021 - Игра в Джарт, роман, иллюстрации Алекса Клепнёва, электронная книга 2022 - Игра в Джарт, роман, Литрес/Яуза