Antoine Volodine

Antoine Volodine
Volodine in 2014
Born	1950 (age 73–74)
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Russian-French
Notable awards	Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (1987) Prix du Livre Inter (2000) Prix Wepler (2000) Prix Médicis (2014)

Antoine Volodine (born 1950) is the pseudonym of a Russian-French writer. He initially was interested in the original Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires. His works often involve cataclysms and have scenes of interrogations. He won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 1987. Des anges mineurs (trans. Minor Angels), one of his best-known works, won the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Wepler in 2000. He won the Prix Médicis in 2014 for his latest novel, Terminus radieux.

Volodine writes under multiple heteronyms, including Lutz Bassmann, Manuela Draeger, and Elli Kronauer. 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).

Bibliography

In English

As Antoine Volodine

• Solo Viola (translated by Lia Swope Mitchell)
• Naming the Jungle (translated by Linda Coverdale)
• Minor Angels (translated by Jordan Stump)
• Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven (translated by J.T. Mahany)
• Bardo or not Bardo (translated by J.T. Mahany)
• Writers (translated by Katina Rogers)
• Radiant Terminus (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman)
• The Monroe Girls (translated by Alyson Waters)
• Mevlido's Dreams (translated by Gina Stamm, forthcoming June 2024)

As Lutz Bassmann

• We Monks & Soldiers (translated by Jordan Stump)
• Black Village (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman)

As Manuela Draeger

• In the Time of the Blue Ball (translated by Brian Evenson with Valerie Evenson)
  • Contains "In the Time of the Blue Ball," "North of the Wolverines," and "Our Baby Pelicans"
• "Belle-Medusa" (translated by Valerie Evenson and Brian Evenson) in xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, ed. Kate Bernheimer
• "The Arrest of the Great Mimille" (translated by Valerie Mariana and Brian Evenson) in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• Eleven Sooty Dreams (translated by J.T. Mahany)