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Antoine Volodine

アントワーヌ・ヴォロディーヌ

Antowānu Vorodīnu

Aliases: Jean Desvignes
Pen Names: Elli KronauerPen name, Manuela DraegerPen name, Lutz BassmannPen name, Infernus IohannesPen name

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1950
Nationality
France
Languages
French, Russian
Residence History
France

Career

Occupations
Writer
Active Years
1980-
Influenced By
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Awards

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
1987
Work: Rituel du mépris
Organization: Société des Gens de Lettres
Result: 受賞
Prix Wepler
1999
Work: Des anges mineurs
Result: 受賞
Prix du Livre Inter
2000
Work: Des anges mineurs
Result: 受賞
Prix Médicis
2014
Work: Terminus radieux
Result: 受賞
Prix de la Page 111
2014
Work: Terminus radieux
Result: 受賞
Albertine Prize
2017
Work: Bardo or Not Bardo
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Minor Angels

1999 Post-Exoticism

Story of minor angels.

CataclysmsInterrogations
Translations
  • translated by Jordan Stump

Bibliography

  • Solo Viola
  • Naming the Jungle
  • The Inner Harbour
  • Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven
  • Minor Angels
  • Bardo or Not Bardo
  • Mevlido's Dreams
  • Writers
  • Radiant Terminus
  • The Monroe Girls

Translations by Author

  • Eduard Limonov
  • Strugatsky brothers

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Post-ExoticismCataclysmic narrativesInterrogation scenes
Recurring Motifs
CataclysmsRevolution

Legacy

French innovative SF writer, founder of Post-Exoticism, using multiple pen names.

Trivia

  • Real name is Jean Desvignes.
  • Writes under multiple pen names.