Makine, a Siberian Russian who emigrated to France in his late twenties (1987), evoked comparisions to Nabokov with his prize-winning first novel _Dreams of my Russian Summers_. The comparision is chiefly based on the circumstance that Makin writes very well in a second language. I gather that several of Makine's works have also been published in Russian. I do not know whether they are "author translated" or by some one else. If the former, it might be a further interesting parallel to VN and of significance to those who are interested in the impact of language A in language B.