A Hero’s Daughter

Born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, Andreï Makine has lived in France since seeking asylum there in 1987. His first novel, A Hero's Daughter, was published in 1990 and was followed by Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer and Once Upon the River Love. In 1995 his fourth novel, Le Testament Français, won both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Médicis and its translation into English by Geoffrey Strachan also won the Scott Moncrieff Prize. Since then Andreï Makine has published The Crime of Olga Arbyelina, Requiem for the East and A Life's Music, which won the French Grand Prix RTL-Lire.