Antoine Volodine
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- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (1987)
- Prix Wepler (1999)
- Prix du Livre Inter (2000)
- Prix Médicis (2014)
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.jpg) Volodine in 2014 | |
| Born | 1950 (age 74–75) |
| Occupation | Writer |
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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]
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).
