Antoine Volodine is the pseudonym of a French writer. He initially was interested in the original Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires

Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires

The Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires was a French association of revolutionary artists and writers which first existed between 1932 and 1939...

. His works often involve cataclysms and have scenes of interrogations. One of his best known works is Des anges mineurs (trans. Minor Angels), which won the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Welper. Before that he won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire is a French award for speculative fiction. It originally had the word "science fiction" in the name, but this has since been dropped.-French novel:* 1974 : Michel Jeury, Le Temps incertain...

 in 1987.

Volodine has translated literary works from Russian into French. Among the authors he translated are Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are Soviet Jewish-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.-Life and work:...

, Viktoriya Tokareva

Viktoriya Tokareva

Viktoriya Samoilovna Tokareva is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer.-Biography :Viktoriya Tokareva was born in 1937 in Leningrad, in the Soviet Union. Her love for literature began at the age of twelve, when her mother read her "Skripka Rotschil'da," , a short story by Chekhov...

, Alexandre Ikonnikov, and Maria Soudaïeva.