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French novelist (born 1957)
Andreï Makine
Andreï Makine in 2013
Born (1957-09-10) 10 September 1957 (age 67)
Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR
NationalitySoviet
French
EducationMoscow State University
OccupationNovelist
Known forMember of the Académie Française

Andreï Sergueïevitch Makine (Russian: Андрей Серге́евич Макин, romanized: Andrey Sergeyevich Makin; born 10 September 1957) is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. He was elected to seat 5 of the Académie Française on 3 March 2016, succeeding Assia Djebar.

Biography

Andreï Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 10 September 1957 and grew up in the city of Penza about 700 kilometres (435 mi) south-east of Moscow. As a boy, having acquired familiarity with France and its language from his French-born grandmother, he wrote poems in both French and his native Russian.

In 1987, he went to France as a member of a teacher's exchange program and decided to stay. He was granted political asylum and was determined to make a living as a writer in French. However, Makine had to present his first manuscripts as translations from Russian to overcome publishers' skepticism that a newly arrived exile could write so fluently in a second language. After disappointing reactions to his first two novels, it took eight months to find a publisher for his fourth, Dreams of My Russian Summers. Finally published in 1995 in France as Le testament français, the novel became the first in history to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis plus the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.

In 2001 Makine began secretively publishing as "Gabriel Osmonde", a total of four novels over ten years, the last appearing in 2011. It was considered a mystery among France's literary subculture; many speculated about who Osmonde might be until, in 2011, a scholar noticed Osmonde's book 20,000 femmes dans la vie d'un homme seemed to have been inspired by Makine's Dreams of My Russian Summers. Makine confirmed that he was Osmonde. Explaining why he used a pseudonym, he said, "I wanted to create someone who lived far from the hurly-burly of the world".

Translations

All English translations of Makine's novels are by Geoffrey Strachan.

Le testament français was published in English as Dreams of My Russian Summers in the United States, and under its original French title in the United Kingdom. It has also been translated into Russian by Yuliana Yahnina and Natalya Shakhovskaya, and it was first published in Russian in 1996 in the 12th issue of Foreign Literature (Иностранная литература) literary magazine.

Bibliography

As Gabriel Osmonde

  • Le Voyage d'une femme qui n'avait plus peur de vieillir, Albin Michel, 2001
  • Les 20 000 Femmes de la vie d'un homme, Albin Michel, 2004
  • L'Œuvre de l'amour, Pygmalion, 2006
  • Alternaissance, Pygmalion, 2011

References

  1. ^ Baume, Maïa de la (2011-04-01). "Who is Gabriel Osmonde? A French Literary Mystery is Solved". ArtsBeat. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
  2. "L'écrivain d'origine russe Andreï Makine entre à l'Académie française" (in French). Le Monde. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  3. Murielle Lucie Clément. Andreï Makine. Rodopi, 2009. pg. 141
  4. Safran, Gabriella (2003). "Andrei Makine's Literary Bilingualism and the Critics". Comparative Literature. 55 (3): 246–265. doi:10.2307/4125408. JSTOR 4125408.
  5. Christopher W. Lemelin, "Andrei Makine" in Multicultural Authors Since 1945(Amoia, Alba, and Bettina L Knapp, eds.). Oxford and Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004.
  6. "Torn Between Two Languages", Victor Brombert, New York Times, August 17, 1997
  7. Wanner, Adrian (2011). "The Russian Immigrant Narrative as Metafiction". The Slavic and East European Journal. 55 (1): 58–74. ISSN 0037-6752. JSTOR 23347693.
  8. Theis, Mary (2012-12-31). "Makine's Postmodern Writing about Exile, Memory, and Connection". CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 14 (5). doi:10.7771/1481-4374.2149. ISSN 1481-4374.
  9. "Иностранная литература 1996/12". Retrieved January 18, 2023.

External links

French language links

Andreï Makine
Novels
Académie française seat 5
Current members of the Académie française
  1. Dagens
  2. Laferrière
  3. vacant
  4. Marion
  5. Makine
  6. Jambet
  7. Hoffmann
  8. Rondeau
  9. Grainville
  10. Delay
  11. de Broglie
  12. Thomas
  13. Serra
  14. vacant
  15. Vitoux
  16. Gaillard
  17. Orsenna
  18. Vargas Llosa
  19. Agacinski
  20. Rinaldi
  21. Finkielkraut
  22. vacant
  23. Rosenberg
  24. Sureau
  25. Fernandez
  26. Rouart
  27. Nora
  28. Rufin
  29. Maalouf
  30. Sallenave
  31. Edwards
  32. Ory
  33. Bona
  34. Cheng
  35. Compagnon
  36. Cassin
  37. Zink
  38. Lambron
  39. Clair
  40. Darcos
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