Alexandra Marinina
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Alexandra Marinina (born July 16, 1957, real name Alekseeva Marina Anatolevna) is a Russian best-seller detective stories writer.
Marinina was born in Lvov (now Ukraine). She lived in Leningrad until 1971 and has lived in Moscow since then. She received a degree in law from the Moscow State University in 1979.
From 1979 to 1998 she worked in research and education units of the militia (police) system. She studied the personality of criminals with anomalies of mentality and criminals who have committed repeated violent crimes, earning a Ph.D. in 1986. She resigned from the militia system in February, 1998 to become a full-time writer. Before her resignation, she had the rank of the lieutenant colonel of militia.
Marinina started writing in 1991, when, together with her colleague Alexander Gorky, she wrote a detective story that was published in magazine "Militia". In December 1992, she finished her first novel "Coincidence of circumstances" which was also published in "Militia" magazine, in 1993.
She has written over 20 novels, published in over 17 million copies and translated into over 20 languages. All of her novels have a common central character Anatasia (Nastya) Kamenskaya. A television series "Kamenskaya" based on eight of Marinina's novels was shown on national Russian TV, and also in Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, France.
Marinina has received several awards. In 1995 Marinina received the prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the best book about work of the Russian militia, for books "Death for the sake of death" and "Away game". She was recognized as "the Writer of year" on 1998 Moscow international book fair, based on the sales of the books in 1997, and received the award of "Ogonyok" magazine in the category "Success of the year" in 1998.
External link
- Official home site (http://www.marinina.ru/english/)de:Alexandra Marinina