Andre Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1957, but has lived in France since 1987. While initially sleeping rough in Paris he wrote his first novel, A HERO'S DAUGHTER, which was eventually published in 1990 after Makine had to pretend it had been translated from the Russian. With his fourth novel, LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS, he became the first author to win both of France's top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and Prix Mdicis. It has gone on to sell over a million copies and be translated into 28 languages. Since then Andre Makine has written five novels, including A LIFE'S MUSIC, which won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire.
Praise for THE WOMAN WHO WAITED -- . 'Makine packs great steppes-full of history and passion into compact, bejewelled boxes of prose' -- Independent 'Ravishing' -- The Times 'Achingly beautiful' -- Guardian 'Bewitchingly mysterious ... Makine's reputation rises with every book, and some have claimed that he deserves the Nobel Prize; on the strength of this teasing, emotionally dense novel, it's easy to see why' -- Sunday Telegraph 'Luminous, enthralling ... The enormity of the Second World War, with more than 20 million Russian dead, is allied with one, inconsolable human tragedy. This is where Makine dazzles. He can make the universal deeply intimate.' -- Herald 'Beautiful ... Makine gives us a work about love and its doppelganger, infatuation, which is by turns touching and profoundly sad' -- Spectator 'Makine has justifiably been spoken of as a future Nobel winner.' -- Spectator 20080612
Praise for THE WOMAN WHO WAITED -- . 'Makine packs great steppes-full of history and passion into compact, bejewelled boxes of prose' -- Independent 'Ravishing' -- The Times 'Achingly beautiful' -- Guardian 'Bewitchingly mysterious ... Makine's reputation rises with every book, and some have claimed that he deserves the Nobel Prize; on the strength of this teasing, emotionally dense novel, it's easy to see why' -- Sunday Telegraph 'Luminous, enthralling ... The enormity of the Second World War, with more than 20 million Russian dead, is allied with one, inconsolable human tragedy. This is where Makine dazzles. He can make the universal deeply intimate.' -- Herald 'Beautiful ... Makine gives us a work about love and its doppelganger, infatuation, which is by turns touching and profoundly sad' -- Spectator 'Makine has justifiably been spoken of as a future Nobel winner.' -- Spectator 20080612
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