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Daria Dontsova's childhood

Dontsova's hometown is Moscow. Her birth name is Agrippina, as her parents named her in honor of her grandmother. The father and mother were not married at the time of the girl's birth, since the father was not yet divorced. They registered their marriage only in 1959. My father was a writer. His name is Arkady Vasiliev. Mom worked at the Mosconcert as a director.

At school, Agrippina studied secondary. She was good at languages, but the exact sciences - barely. The girl was not particularly popular in the class. At first, the family lived in a barrack, and after it was resettled, Agrippina and her grandmother lived separately from their parents for about a year because of the too small area of ​​the room they were given. Only in 1957, the family was given an apartment in a new building near the Airport station.

In order to diversify their daughter, the parents wanted to enroll her in a music school, but it turned out that she had absolutely no ear for music. To develop her hearing, they began to take her to the opera and ballet theater and to the conservatory, which was excruciatingly boring for the girl.

Agrippina's ability to speak languages ​​was manifested even in preschool age. Two governesses, a German and a French, were engaged in her upbringing before school. Since they barely knew Russian, the girl learned to speak German and French well enough. German was especially easy for her.

In 1964, the schoolgirl managed to visit Germany, where she went with her father. They were going to publish one of his books. From abroad, she brought many detective classics in German. Among them were authors such as Rex Statua, Dick Francis, James Headley Chase, and Georgetta Hoyer.

The beginning of the career of the writer Daria Dontsova

With a penchant for the humanities, Agrippina after school became a student at Moscow State University, enrolling in the Faculty of Journalism.

After graduating in 1974, the girl worked for two years in Syria as a translator from French at the Soviet consulate. Returning from Syria, she worked for seven years in her specialty in periodicals - it was the newspaper "Evening Moscow" and the magazine "Fatherland".

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Since 1985, Dontsova has worked as a foreign language teacher, giving private lessons. She wrote her first work in 1984, it was a story about steelworkers. However, the magazine "Youth" was not interested in this work. Thus, Dontsova did not succeed in her career as a writer sanctifying the industrial exploits of the people.

The first detectives by Daria Dontsova

In 1999, under the name of Daria Dontsova, the first book in the genre of detective stories was published. It was written in just five days. The aspiring writer called her The Cool Heirs. The main character of the novel was Dasha Vasilyeva, who is fond of private investigation. She wrote the novel in the hospital, where she was at that time, struggling with a serious illness. When Dontsova left the hospital, she already had five novels ready for printing.

The success of the first detective was considerable, readers perfectly accepted the writer's works. The publishing house she signed a contract with is called EKSMO. To date, Daria Arkadyevna has written and published more than one hundred of her novels with a total circulation of more than two hundred and thirty million books. She has many admirers of her talent who are looking forward to every new book. As soon as a fresh novel appears, it immediately becomes a bestseller.

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Dontsova is recognized as one of the most published authors in Russia. The writer spends about a month on writing the next novel. It is known that the Guinness Book of Records of Russia considers Dontsova the most prolific writer, who managed to publish more than a hundred books in ten years.

Dontsova's detective stories are published not only in Russia and the countries of the former USSR, but also in Western Europe, and even in China.

The writer's optimism is felt in the works. Readers call her detectives "pills for depression." Many would like to have the opportunity to consult with Dontsova. Even her autograph is considered by many to bring good luck. The writer publishes not only detective stories. She wrote a cookbook for beginners. Its name is The Lazy Cookbook. She also published an autobiographical work "Notes of a Mad Optimist".

Dontsova's books became so popular that they became the basis for cinema. So, based on the writer's works, serials about detectives Ivan Podushkin, Viola Tarakanova, Dasha Vasilyeva and Evlampy Romanova were filmed. They were played by such actors as Dmitry Kharatyan, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Valery Garkalin, Sergey Astakhov and others.

Daria Dontsova today

In 2012, a book by the writer was published, the title of which is “I really want to live. My personal experience. " In it, she shares her experience of fighting such a terrible and sometimes invincible disease as cancer.

In the fall of 2012, the program "Cheap and Angry" began to appear on Channel One. The host of this talk show is Daria Dontsova.

Personal life of Daria Dontsova, cancer

Daria Arkadyevna fell seriously ill in 1998. She was admitted to intensive care with a diagnosis of Stage 4 breast cancer, she had to undergo three difficult operations. Hope for recovery was very weak, but she found strength and began to write. It was in the intensive care unit in just five days that Daria Arkadyevna wrote her first detective novel. This was a distraction for her and at the same time support and stimulus in the fight against the disease.

The writer is now married to Alexander Dontsov. This is her third marriage. From her first marriage, she has a son, Arkady. He is now married. He has a son, Nikita, the grandson of Daria Arkadyevna. In her third marriage, she gave birth to a girl, Masha.

One of Dontsova's greatest hobbies is animals. She has four pugs, a British cat and a turtle.