Polina Dashkova


Polina Daschkowa is a successful Russian crime novelist.

Life

Daschkowa was born in Moscow in 1960. She was educated at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute 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 line of books which are based against the recent time of change 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 Radio Bremen in 2006. Her surname is transliterated as Dashkova in English and Daschkowa in German. At least a dozen of her books have been translated into German. A few of her books have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Spanish.

Works