| LC control no. | n 81035449 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ2682.O4 |
| Personal name heading | Volkoff, Vladimir |
| Variant(s) | Volkoff, V. (Vladimir) Wołkow, Władimir Volkov, Vladimir |
| See also | for works of this author entered under other names, search also under: Barbare, Rholf; Divomlikoff, Lavr; Duloup, Victor; Lieutenant X Barbare, Rholf Divomlikoff, Lavr Duloup, Victor Lieutenant X |
| Located | Georgia |
| Birth date | 1932-11-07 |
| Death date | 2005-09-14 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | French literature Translating and interpreting Creative writing French language Russian language |
| Affiliation | Agnes Scott College Mercer University |
| Profession or occupation | Writers University and college faculty members Translators |
| Found in | His Les mousquetaires de la République, 1964. His The turn-around, 1981: t.p. (Vladimir Volkoff) pub. info. (The turn-around is Vladimir Volkoff's sixth novel but the first to be published in English under his real name. The traitor was published by Doubleday in 1973 under the pseudonym Lavr Divomlikoff (an anagram of his real name)) His Vladimir Volkoff, c1982: t.p. (Vladimir Volkoff) p. 259 (b. 11/7/32, Paris) spine (V. Volkoff) His Operat︠s︡ii︠a︡ "Tverdyĭ znak," 1987: t.p. (Vladimir Volkov) Montaż, 1986: t.p. (Władimir Wołkow) French Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 19, 2005 (Vladimir Volkoff; b. Nov. 7, 1932, Paris; d. Sept. 14, 2005, Bourdeilles (Dordogne); French author of Russian origin) BnF, 1 Oct. 2008 (hdg.: Volkoff, Vladimir, 1932-2005; pseud. refs.: Divomlikoff, Lavr, 1932-2005; Lieutenant X, 1932-2005) Gale Literature Resource Center WWW Site, 5 Sep. 2008: French authors page (Vladimir Volkoff; has also written under the pseudonyms Rholf Barbare and Victor Duloup) The pope's guest, 2013: CIP t.p. (Vladimir Volkoff) data view ("(1932-2005) was born in Paris, the son of White Russian émigrés. He was a member of the faculty of Agnes Scott College and taught creative writing at Mercer University. Holder of a doctoral degree from the Université de Liège, he was an intelligence officer in the French army during the Algerian War. Known primarily for his espionage fiction, he was a prolific writer who also published essays, poems, plays, biographies, science fiction, and the wildly popular Lieutenant X spy novels for youth. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and won many literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman, awarded by the French Academy") preface ("a man of widely diverse talents and interests: an intelligence officer . . . , a college professor, an actor/director, an avid hunter, fencer, chess player, and weapon collector . . . his great grand uncle [is] Tchaikovsky . . . trilingual, he spoke Russian, French, and English . . . this man who was so passionately devoted to the Russian and French cultures lived for over two decades in Georgia, first in Decatur, where he taught languages at Agnes Scott College, and then in Macon after he retired from teaching to devote full time to his writing career") The torturer, 2016: ECIP data view (Vladimir Volkoff (1932-2005) was born in Paris, the son of White Russian émigrés. Educated at the Université de Liège, he was a member of the faculty of Agnes Scott College and taught creative writing at Mercer University. Known primarily for his espionage fiction, Volkoff was a prolific writer who authored the wildly popular Lieutenant X spy novels for youth. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and won many literary prizes) Travers, P. Mary Poppins, ©2018: title page (translated by Vladimir Volkoff) Wikipedia, Sept. 6, 2024 (Vladimir Volkoff the writer behind Lieutenant X was also a translator; also taught French and Russian at university; primarily wrote in French) |
| Associated language | fre |
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