Vladimir Volkoff

Vladimir Volkoff ( born November 7, 1932 in Paris, † 14 September 2005 at the Perigord ) was a French writer and author of spy novels and historical books.

Life

Vladimir Volkoff was born in 1932 as the son of Russian émigrés in Paris. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and received his doctorate at the University of Liège in history.

From 1957 he worked during the Algerian war for the French military intelligence, but started after leaving the service in 1962 his career as a spy author, partly under his pseudonym Lavr Divomlikoff.

The novel " Le Retournement " ( The Reversal ) in 1979 was his international breakthrough.

Vladimir Volkoff but also wrote historical and contemporary books. We have complied with his biographies of the Kievan Grand Prince Vladimir I. and the composer Tchaikovsky. People Offs great-aunt was a cousin of Tchaikovsky. Charles Dickens ' " The Pickwick Papers" he translated into French. For a book about the French Foreign Legion, he worked with Jane Atwood and Anne de Boismilon.

In the German-speaking world, he was under the pseudonym " Lt. X" ( französ. Lieutenant X ) are known, under which he ( französ. " Langelot " ) published the youth book series Secret Agent Lennet.

Volkoff died at his holiday home in the Perigord.

Important works

• L' Agent triple ("The Triple Agent " )
• Le Retournement ( " The Reversal " / " Reverse " )
• Le Montage ( " The Arrangement " / " The agreement " )
• L' interrogatoire ( " The Interrogation " )