Andreï Makine

Andreï Makine ( born September 10, 1957 in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union) is a French writer.

Life

Makine grew up in the provincial town of Penza. Since his childhood, he is trusted by his French grandmother with the culture and language of France. However Makine claimed in later interviews to have learned French from a friend, so it is not sure if he actually had a French grandmother. Even as a boy, he writes poetry in Russian and French in his native language. He studied in Moscow and Tver philology and philosophy teaches a short time in Novgorod. In 1987, he comes as part of a teacher exchange program to France. There he decides to stay, granted political asylum and decides to lead a life as a writer in France; since he lives in Paris, initially in very poor circumstances. His first written in French manuscripts - as the first novel Daughter of a Hero (1990 ) - he pretends to be French translations from Russian to dispel the skepticism of the publishing house that has only recently living in France Russian emigre in a second language can write. After disappointing reactions to his first two novels, it takes eight months to find a publisher for his novel The French Testament, with whom he at one stroke becomes famous in 1995. In the same year he becomes the first writer simultaneously the two most prestigious literary prizes in France, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. In 1998 he received the Finnish Eeva - Joenpelto Prize and in 2005 for his oeuvre the 15,000 euro Literature Prize of the Foundation Prince Pierre of Monaco.

Works

• Daughter of a hero, Roman ( La fille d'un héros de l' Union soviétique, 1990), Hoffmann and Campe, 2002, ISBN 978-3-455-05139-1
• Confessions of a flag bearer, Roman ( Confession d'un porte- drapeur déchu, 1992), Hoffmann and Campe, 2005, ISBN 978-3-455-05149-0
• The love of the river Amur, Roman ( Au temps du fleuve Amour, 1994), Hoffmann and Campe 1998, ISBN 978-3-455-05137-7
• The French Testament, Roman ( Le Testament Français, 1995), Hoffmann and Campe, 1997, ISBN 978-3-455-05135-3
• The Crime of Olga Arbelina, Roman ( Le Crime d' Olga Arbélina, 1998); Hoffmann and Campe 2000, ISBN 978-3-455-05134-6
• Russian Requiem, Roman ( Requiem pour l' Est, 2000), Hoffmann and Campe, 2001, ISBN 978-3-455-05145-2
• Music of a life novel (La Musique d' une vie, 2001), Hoffmann and Campe, 2003, ISBN 978-3-455-05146-9
• Heaven and earth of Jacques Dorme, Roman ( La terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme, 2003), Hoffmann and Campe, 2004, ISBN 978-3-455-05147-6
• The woman from the White Sea, Roman ( La femme qui attendait, 2004) Hoffmann and Campe 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-05148-3
• L' amour humain (not yet translated), Éditions du Seuil, 2006 ISBN 978-2-02-088426-6
• Le Monde selon Gabriel (not yet translated), Editions du Rocher, 2007 ISBN 978-2-268-06380-5
• La Vie d'un homme inconnu, 2009
• Le Livre des amours brèves éternelles, 2011