Polina Dashkova (born 14 July 1960) is a successful Russian crime novelist.Polina Daschkowa
rus-lit.org, retrieved April 2014

Life

Dashkova was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

in 1960. She was educated at the

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is an institution of higher education in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The insti ...

and then she worked as a journalist and as a translator from English. Her first novel was published in 1996. Since then she has published a series of books which are based upon the recent time of changes in Russia. She has sold over 40 million books. She has sold 300,000 books in Germany and she won the Krimipreis crime award from

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in 2006.Polina Daschkowa
Radio Bremen, retrieved 5 April 2014 At least a dozen of her books have been translated into German.
/ref> A few of her books have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Spanish.OCLC WorldCat, retrieved 7 February 2016
/ref> In 2018 she was identified as one of the most popular women crime writers in Russia together with

Darya Dontsova Agrippina Arkadyevna Dontsova (russian: Агриппи́на Арка́дьевна Донцо́ва (Васи́льева), link=no; born 7 June 1952 in Moscow), primarily known as Darya Dontsova (russian: link=no, Дарья Донцова) (bef ...

Alexandra Marinina Alexandra Marinina russian: Алекса́ндра Мари́нина (born June 16, 1957, real name Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva russian: Мари́на Анато́льевна Алексе́ева) is a Russian writer of detective stories. ...

and

Tatyana Ustinova Tatyana Ustinova (November 14, 1913, Alushta — September 4, 2009, Vancouver) was a USSR, Soviet geologist, who discovered Valley of Geysers in Kamchatka. Biography Tatyana Ustinova graduated from Kharkiv University and subsequently worked on p ...

beating many other living writers.

Works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dashkova, Polina 1960 births Living people Writers from Moscow Russian women novelists 20th-century Russian women writers Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni