Andrei Makine

AndreA Makine is an internationally bestselling author. His novel Le Testament FranA ais won the Goncourt Prize and the Medicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France, going on to sell over a million copies and publish in twenty-nine countries. Born in Siberia in 1957 and raised in the Soviet Union, Makine was granted asylum in France in 1987. He lives in Paris.