Andreï Makine
Andreï Makine ( Russian Андрей Сергеевич Макин Andrei Sergejewitsch Makin ; born September 10, 1957 in Krasnoyarsk , RSFSR ) is a French writer . He had his breakthrough in 1995 with the novel The French Testament , for which he was awarded the Prix Goncourt . He has been a member of the Académie française since 2016 .
Life
Makine grew up in the Russian provincial town of Penza . According to his own admission, he has been familiar with the culture and language of France since childhood through his French grandmother. However, Makine claimed in later interviews that he learned French from a friend. As a boy he wrote poetry in French and in his native Russian. He studied philology in Tver and Moscow and briefly taught philosophy in Novgorod .
In 1987 he came to France as part of a teacher exchange program. There he decided to stay, was granted political asylum and decided to lead a life as a writer in France; since then he has lived in Paris , initially in very poor conditions. His first manuscripts written in French - such as the debut novel Daughter of a Hero (1990) - were translated into French from Russian in order to dispel the publisher's skepticism that a Russian emigrant who had only recently been living in France could speak in a second language can write.
After disappointing reactions to his first two novels, it took eight months to find a publisher for his novel The French Testament , which made him famous in one fell swoop in 1995. In the same year he was the first writer to receive the two most prestigious French literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis . In 1998 he received the Finnish Eeva Joenpelto Prize and in 2005 the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation's literary prize, endowed with 15,000 euros, for his complete works. In addition to the works under his own name, he published four novels from 2001 under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde , to which he confessed in 2011. In 2014 he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca .
On March 3, 2016, Makine was elected to the Académie française as the successor to the late Assia Djebar on Fauteuil 5 .
Works
- All translations Holger Fock, Sabine Müller; Verlag Hoffmann & Campe , Hamburg
- Daughter of a hero, novel, 2002, ISBN 978-3-455-05139-1 ( La fille d'un héros de l'Union soviétique . 1990)
- Confessions of a standard bearer, novel, 2005, ISBN 978-3-455-05149-0 ( Confession d'un porte-drapeur déchu . 1992)
- Love on the Amur River, Roman, 1998, ISBN 978-3-455-05137-7 ( Au temps du fleuve Amour . 1994)
- The French Testament, Roman, 1997, ISBN 978-3-455-05135-3 ( Le Testament Français . 1995), Prix Goncourt des lycéens 1995
- The crime of Olga Arbelina, novel, 2000, ISBN 978-3-455-05134-6 ( Le Crime d'Olga Arbélina . 1998)
- Russian Requiem, Roman, 2001, ISBN 978-3-455-05145-2 ( Requiem pour l'Est . 2000)
- Music of a life, novel, 2003, ISBN 978-3-455-05146-9 ( La Musique d'une vie . 2001)
- Heaven and Earth by Jacques Dorme, novel, 2004, ISBN 978-3-455-05147-6 ( La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme . 2003)
- The woman from the White Sea, novel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-05148-3 ( La femme qui attendait . 2004)
- not translated into German
- L'amour humain . Editions du Seuil, 2006 ISBN 978-2-02-088426-6
- Le Monde Selon Gabriel . Éditions du Rocher 2007 ISBN 978-2-268-06380-5
- La Vie d'un homme inconnu . Seuil, 2009 ISBN 978-2-02-098296-2
- Le livre des brèves amours éternelles . Seuil, 2011 ISBN 978-2-02-103365-6
- Une femme aimée . Seuil, 2013 ISBN 978-2-02-109551-7
- Le pays du lieutenant scribe . Grasset, 2014 ISBN 978-2-2468-1037-7
- L'Archipel d'une autre vie . Seuil, 2016 ISBN 978-2-02-132917-9
Secondary literature
- Murielle Lucie Clément (Ed.): Andreï Makine. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2009.
- Murielle Lucie Clément: Andreï Makine. Le multilinguisme, la photographie, le cinéma et la musique dans son œuvre. L'Harmattan, Paris 2010.
- Murielle Lucie Clément: Andreï Makine. L'Ekphrasis dans son œuvre. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2011.
- Murielle Lucie Clément, Marco Caratozzolo (eds.): Le Monde selon Andreï Makine. Textes du Collectif de chercheurs autour de l'oeuvre d'Andreï Makine. Éditions Universitaires Éuropéennes, Berlin 2011.
- Helena Duffy: World War II in Andreï Makine's Historiographic Metafiction. 'No One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgotten. Brill Rodopi, Leiden / Boston 2018.
- Thierry Laurent: Andreï Makine, Russe en exil. Connaissances et savoirs, Paris 2006.
- Margaret Parry, Marie-Louise Scheidhauer, Edward Welch (eds.): Andreï Makine. Perspectives russes. L'Harmattan, Paris 2005.
- Agata Sylwestrzak-Wszelaki: Andreï Makine. L'identitéproblemématique. L'Harmattan, Paris 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreï Makine in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Andreï Makine at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rencontre avec Andreï Makine, à l'occasion de la parution du Testament français (1997). www.gallimard.fr, 2004.
- ↑ Русский «Гонкур» , kommersant.ru, May 25, 2008
- ^ Élection de M. Andreï Makine (F5)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Makine, Andreï |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnoyarsk |