Antoine Volodine

Who is Antoine Volodine?

Antoine Volodine is the pseudonym of a 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. One of his best known works is Des anges mineurs, which won the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Welper. Before that he won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 1987.

Volodine has translated literary works from Russian into French. Among the authors he translated are Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Viktoriya Tokareva, Alexandre Ikonnikov, and Maria Soudaïeva.

He was recently among a list of contributors to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, &NOW Books, 2013.