Antoine Volodine

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Antoine Volodine
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Volodine in 2014
Born1950 (age 7475)
OccupationWriter
Notable awards

Jean Desvignes (born 1950) is a French writer, best known under the pen name Antoine Volodine, as well as Elli Kronauer, Manuela Draeger, Lutz Bassmann and Infernus Iohannes. [1]

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Writing

He initially was interested in the original Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires. His works often involve cataclysms and have scenes of interrogations. [2] He won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 1987. Des anges mineurs (Minor Angels), one of his best-known works, won the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Wepler. He won the Prix Médicis in 2014 for Terminus radieux (Radiant Terminus).

He has also translated literary works from Russian into French, including such authors as Eduard Limonov, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Viktoriya Tokareva, Alexander Ikonnikov, and Maria Sudayeva (who may be another pseudonym of Volodine's).

Selected bibliography of English translations

As Antoine Volodine

As Manuela Draeger

As Lutz Bassmann

In anthologies

Awards and honours

References

  1. Desmeules, Christian (1 June 2024). "«Vivre dans le feu»: souvenirs brûlants". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  2. Fuzzy fiction By Jean-Louis Hippolyte; pgs 144-179