Manuela Draeger
Manuela Draeger is one of several pseudonyms used by the author Antoine Volodine (which is also a pseudonym).
She is a fictional character in his book "Minor Angles".
Books published under her name tend to be very short stories said by Antoine Volodine to be "related both to surrealist imagery and to British nonsense literature..."
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Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French author. Some of his books have been published in sf collections, but his style, which he has called "post-exoticism", does not fit neatly into any common genre.
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He publishes under several additional pseudonyms, including Lutz Bassmann and Manuela Draeger.