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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-09-10 ) 10 September 1957 (age 68) , Krasnoyarsk , Russian SFSR
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Known for
- Member of the Académie Française
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Krasnoyarsk
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Native language
- Russian
- Eye colour
- blue
- Image
- Andrei Makine.jpg
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- pseudonym
- Françoise Bour
- Commons category
- Andreï Makine
- date of birth
- 1957-09-10
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Andreï Makine
- birth name
- Андрей Ярославович Макин
- writing language
- French
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Encyclopedic overview
Andreï Yaroslavovich Makine (Russian: Андрей Ярослáвович Макин, romanized: Andrey Yaroslavovich 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
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