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Antoine Volodine

Biography

Antoine Volodine was born Jean Desvignes in 1950 in Chalon-sur-Saône. Like much of his biography, There is some dispute about these details. His mother was the writer Lucette Desvignes. After studying literature he spent fifteen years teaching Russian when he became a full-time writer and translator. He wrote books under a variety of pseudonyms. He called his writing post exoticism without fully defining this term though it was clearly linked to but definitely not science-fiction. As much as anything else, it was a term to show that he was different from his contemporaries. As well as writing numerous works of fiction he has also translated several Russian novels into French.

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Under the name Antoine Volodine

11985 Biographie comparée de Jorian Murgrave
1986 Un navire de nulle part
1987 Rituel du mépre
1988 Des enfers fabuleux
1990 Lisbonne, dernière marge
1991 Alto solo ( Solo Viola)
1994 Le Nom des singes (Naming the Jungle)
1996 Le Port intérieur (he Inner Harbour)
1997 Nuit blanche en Balkhyrie
1998 Vue sur l’ossuaire
1998 Le Post-exotisme en dix leçons, leçon onze (Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven)
1999 Des anges mineurs (Minor Angels)
2002 Dondog
2004 Bardo or not bardo (Bardo or not Bardo)
2006 2007 Songes de Mevlido (Mevlido’s Dreams)
Nos animaux préférés
2009 Macau
2010 Écrivains (Writers)
2014 Terminus radieux (Radiant Terminus)
2019 Frères sorcières,
2021 LesFilles de Monroe (The Monroe Girls)
2024 Vivre dans le feu

Under the name Elli Kronauer

1999 Ilia Mouromietz et le Rossignol brigand
2000 Aliocha Popovitch et la Rivière Saphrate,
2000 oukmane fils de Soukmane et les Fleurs écarlates

Under the name Manuela Draeger

2002 Pendant la boule bleue (In the Time of the Blue Ball)
2002 Au nord des gloutons (North of the Wolverines)
2003 Nos bébés-pélicans (Our Baby Pelicans)
2003 Le Deuxième Mickey
2004 La Course au kwak
2007 L’Arrestation de la grande Mimille,
2008 Belle-Méduse
2020 Kree (Kree : A Post-Exotic Novel)

Under the name Lutz Bassmann

2008 Haïkus de prison
2008 Avec les moines-soldats (We Monks & Soldiers)
2012 Danse avec Nathan Golshem
2010 Les aigles puent2010 (Onze Rêves de suie Eleven Sooty Dreams )
2017 Black village : narrats (Black Village)

Under the name Infernus Iohannes

2022 Débrouille-toi avec ton violeur