Jean Desvignes (born 1950) is a French writer, best known under the pen name Antoine Volodine, as well as Elli Kronauer, Manuela Draeger, Lutz Bassmann and Infernus Iohannes.

[1] He initially was interested in the original Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires.

Des anges mineurs (Minor Angels), one of his best-known works, won the Prix du Livre Inter and Prix Wepler.

He has also translated literary works from Russian into French, including such authors as Eduard Limonov, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Viktoriya Tokareva, Alexander Ikonnikov, and Maria Sudayeva (who may be another pseudonym of Volodine's).

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