Alexandre Landragin Alexandre Landragin i(A85696 works by) (a.k.a. Alex Landragin)
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France,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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Born in the Champagne region of France, Alexandre Landragin moved to Australia with his winemaker father and Armenian mother. Settling in Victoria, the family subsequently undertook various winemaking ventures both in Ararat and Ballarat.

With his knowledge of this winemaking region, Landragin has co-authored a Lonely Planet guidebook to Victoria (2002). Landragin has also been working on a novel, 'New Gold Mountain', and in 2005 he undertook postgraduate studies in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.

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y separately published work icon Crossings Sydney : Picador , 2019 15920888 2019 single work novel

'I didn't write this book. I stole it...

'A Parisian bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript containing three stories, each as unlikely as the other.

'The first, 'The Education of a Monster', is a letter penned by the poet Charles Baudelaire to an illiterate girl. The second, 'City of Ghosts', is a noir romance set in Paris in 1940 as the Germans are invading. The third, 'Tales of the Albatross', is the strangest of the three: the autobiography of a deathless enchantress. Together, they tell the tale of two lost souls peregrinating through time.

'An unforgettable tour de force with echoes of Roberto Bolaño, David Mitchell and Umberto Eco, Crossings is a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
2020 shortlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
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