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Daria Dontsova was born on June 7, 1952 in Moscow in the family of a famous Soviet writer Arkady Vasiliev and chief director of the Mosconcert Tamara Novatskaya. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, she spent two years in Syria, translating from French at the Soviet Consulate. After returning to Russia, she worked in the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, and then in the magazine Fatherland.
She wrote her first book in an oncological intensive care unit in order to somehow distract herself from the disease. Now the writer has more than 200 novels, the total circulation of which exceeded 200 million copies! In 2009, she was listed in the Russian Book of Records as the most prolific author of detective novels (100 detective stories in 10 years).
Each new book by the writer invariably becomes a bestseller. “Her works help us overcome life's difficulties, charge us with optimism!” readers say. According to the Russian Book Chamber, Daria Arkadyevna invariably tops the list of the most published authors in Russia.
Laureate of the "Book of the Year" competition, "Author of the Year", "Name of the Year", "Bestseller of the Year" awards, has a book "Oscar". In 2018, according to the results of the VTsIOM poll, the Russians chose her as “Writer of the Year” for the twelfth time! The works of Daria Dontsova are translated and published in countries former USSR, Western Europe and China. Based on her novels, the series “Lover of Private Investigation Dasha Vasilyeva”, “Evlampia Romanova. The investigation is conducted by an amateur”, “Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions" and "Gentleman detective Ivan Podushkin".
Daria's inexhaustible optimism is so contagious that many readers believe that only her advice will help them solve problems. Her novels are called "pills for depression", and many are sure that the author's autograph brings good luck. Daria Dontsova actively helps people faced with oncological diagnoses. In 2008, she became the Ambassador of the international charity program "Together Against Breast Cancer" in Russia.
In 2010, she took part in the "Protect what is dear to you" social campaign aimed at supporting the world's first vaccine against cervical cancer. In 2013, the book I really want to live, which became an absolute bestseller, was published. My personal experience written to support cancer patients and their families. In the spring of 2018, the Spas TV channel aired a program of the same name, hosted by Daria Dontsova. The program “I really want to live” is a very honest conversation, a confession of the most ordinary people, those who courageously walk or have already passed along the path of illness. This is a story about how to overcome fear and start your journey to recovery.
Dontsova successfully hosts programs on TV: “Earlier than everyone” (Channel One), “Cheap and cheerful” (Channel One), “You suit us” (Home), “Fashion sentence” (Channel One), “I really want to live " (Saved).
In September 2016, Daria's first children's book "The Amulet of Kindness" was published in the "Tales of the Beautiful Valley" series. Each book in the series, in addition to the adventure fairy tale plot, contains instructive motives woven into the narrative without the slightest edification. The inhabitants of the Mopshouse, together with the readers of the Tales of the Beautiful Valley series, learn to make friends, help loved ones, recognize deceit and betrayal, make plans and bring them to life.
June 7, 2017, in honor of the birthday of the writer beloved by millions of readers, Minister of the Interior Russian Federation V.A. Kolokoltsev signed an order to award Daria Dontsova with the medal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "For Contribution to Strengthening Law and Order".
The main hobby of the writer is animals. Five dogs live in her house - pugs Musya, Fira, Kuki and Josie, pugl Mafi, British cat San Sanych and turtle Ge.
Married to Alexander Ivanovich Dontsov - doctor psychological sciences, Professor of Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education. Daria has three children: Maria, Dmitry and Arkady, and three grandchildren: Mikhail, Anastasia and Arina.
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Daria Dontsova was born on June 7, 1952. According to Dontsova's passport, Agrippina Arkadyevna is the daughter of writer Arkady Vasiliev and director of the Mosconcert Tamara Novatskaya. Daria graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, worked in newspapers and magazines, taught German and was considered a successful person. Then, in the stagnant years, Vasilyeva wrote the first literary opus - a story about steelworkers. The career of a production writer, depicting the heroic working days of the Soviet people, did not take place. The unlucky writer was thrown out of the editorial office of the Youth magazine in disgrace. Twice divorced. For the third time she married Alexander Dontsov, psychologist, doctor of sciences, professor, dean of the faculty of psychology of Moscow State University, academician Russian Academy education. They have been together for eighteen years. They bring up, as they say, two sons from previous marriages, a common daughter, daughter-in-law, grandson, dogs, cats. There are no mansions, apartments in Paris, fancy jeeps in the family. Daria Dontsova has written 43 books in five years and has already published 34 books, that is, an average of one book per month. To constant questions about how this can be, the writer always answers: “It’s very simple: from eight in the morning until two in the afternoon you need to write ten pages, and from nine to eleven in the evening - five more. And so - every day, regardless of holidays and other valid reasons."
Agrippina began to write ironic detective stories in order to survive. In 1998, she went to the hospital, where she underwent three most difficult operations, and there was no hope for a speedy recovery. Resuscitation, tubes, wires, sensors, groans, wheezing. Time stops, and the whole world of people and things begins to rotate in some kind of orbit. And then an authoritative voice: “If you are going to die, then you will not succeed. You have three orphan children at home, a mother, three dogs, a cat and also me. If you do not make humanity happy with some literary masterpiece, it will not work for you.” forgive." With these words, Agrippina Vasilyeva's husband Alexander Dontsov, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, handed his wife a pen and paper. He couldn't drag a computer into the emergency room! And that his wife has been writing "to the table" for a long time, he knew from the moment they met.
Either out of resentment, or out of self-pity, or out of spite of death, or out of fear of missing out on the last chance to write a detective story - Agrippina dreamed about this all her life - she finished writing the novel "The Steep Heirs" by the evening of the fifth day. And at night I woke up from the Homeric laughter that was heard from the corridor. This is her first reader, a nurse on duty, who got acquainted with the ups and downs of the life of a lover of private detective Dasha Vasilyeva, a rich, eccentric, exalted lady, living with an equally cheerful family, consisting of a son and daughter-in-law, daughter, girlfriend and pit bull, Rottweiler, noble dog blood, a pug, a Yorkshire terrier, a poodle, two cats, three guinea pigs and a parrot.
Since then, Dontsova has continued to write - half-sitting on her wide Italian bed, covered with a soft fawn bedspread, in the color of the skins of her favorite pugs. She invariably puts the book "The Twelve Labors of Hercules" of a huge format on her bent knees, and Ada and Mulya settle comfortably under her knees and snore in their sleep. For some reason, pugs always go out for a walk like real writer's dogs - all in ink. But the ace of the detective genre categorically denies that in thoughtfulness he wipes the ever-flowing pens of "Karvin" on soft skins for 1 ruble 50 kopecks. The manuscript is being typed on the computer already at the publishing house. And when compositors laugh, it's a good omen. The thing will go.
“When I write,” Dontsova admits, “I am in some kind of semi-conscious state. If the novel is cold, snowing, windy, I start to freeze, despite the fact that the heat outside the window is utter. At a certain moment, my heroes come out from under control and begin to live an independent life. Once one of the characters winked at me and said: "I killed something, but you didn't even guess!" Well, they got completely insolent.
There are certain indicators of a successful career inherent in a particular profession. For a writer, these are circulation, fans and ratings. In the ratings of the newspaper "Book Review" Daria Dontsova balances between 7th and 1st place. At a party where the Biblio Globus store was presenting awards to the best-selling writers of the year, Boris Akunin told her that it was very interesting for him to look at a lady with whom you constantly grapple in hand-to-hand combat for ratings. They went neck and neck, but now they were scored by Harry Potter, who took 1st place.
And another undoubted indicator of popularity are attempts to "outbid" a successful writer from other publishing houses. Dontsova received tempting offers repeatedly, but each time she refused. “I feel like a mess who was married by a successful man of age. He gave money, and his own house, and clothes, and position in society. He loves you and appreciates who you are. And then a gigolo turns up, seduced by external gloss. Is it really possible to respond with black ingratitude to the good that has been done for you?
Agrippina Vasilyeva still does not believe in her fantastic luck: “I wake up, look at the shelves and think: where did all this come from? I!"
Recently, Ivan Podushkin has been running around like a scalded man, investigating the cases of clients. And all because the business lady Nora, for whom Vanya serves as a secretary, decided to take up detective work. This time, Podushkin will have to establish which of the household regularly steals money from the table of the millionaire Kuzminsky. The businessman's mansion is full of household members, and, like in English detective stories, there is family tradition about the ghost of the late mother of the owner - the artist Glafira. Once upon a time, she killed herself with scissors, and red appeared on her self-portrait ...
Crime story #10 (compilation)
Genre: DetectivesEspecially for you, our best authors - Daria Dontsova, Anna and Sergey Litvinov, Marina Kramer - wrote their wonderful detective stories, which were included in the collection "Crime story No. 10"! Your favorite writers will enchant you with their original plot, light style and subtle humor. In each crime story you will find the most difficult investigation with a happy ending...
Crime story #3 (compilation)
Genre: DetectivesDetective fans will have a lot of fun reading short crime stories included in this collection! Favorite writers - Daria Dontsova, Anna and Sergey Litvinov, Tatyana Polyakova and other popular authors - are still true to themselves: it is simply impossible to tear oneself away from their action-packed stories, as well as from novels!
Crime story #4 (compilation)
Genre: DetectivesDaria Dontsova, Anna and Sergey Litvinov, Tatyana Lugantseva - these popular writers have long been known to readers as the authors of not only exciting detective novels, but also brilliant action-packed stories. You are holding in your hands a new collection of short crime stories by these and other talented authors that will surely captivate you and make you forget about all the problems!
Crime story #7 (compilation)
Genre: DetectivesThe new collection of the best crime stories features the biggest names in modern action fiction! Daria Dontsova, Tatyana Ustinova, Marina Kramer and other well-known authors will once again please us with their brilliant detective stories. Original stories, bright characters and subtle humor will give you a minute of real pleasure! Contents of the collection: Natalya Alexandrova "Don't cry, Marusya!" Daria Dontsova "The Truth in Three Boxes" Daria Kalinina "Summer Palace" Marina Kramer "Twenty Minutes of Happiness" Tatyana Lugantseva "Face control for that ...
"Feng Shui without brakes"
Genre: Science, educationThe death of a famous businessman live! The rating of the TV show "Interview" skyrocketed after such a sad event! But the wife of Oleg Vetrov is sure that her husband was killed. To investigate this mysterious case, she turns to our detective agency. Now I, Evlampia Romanova, will have something to do in the near future. The most interesting thing is that no one approached Vetrov during the TV broadcast, he only ate a couple of spoons of baby food from his own company ... and got a heart attack. Okay, I unraveled and not such intricacies, I'll figure it out. You…
Agent 013
Genre: DetectivesTatyana Sergeeva is alone again: her beloved husband, Gri, has left for a new assignment, and there hasn’t been a word from him for a long time ... Only work will help Tanechka to distract herself from jealous thoughts! This time she went to the home of the extravagant old woman Tamara Kuklina, who is supposedly being slowly killed by mysterious sounds. But when Tanyusha felt dizzy and saw with her own eyes the mice evacuating from the apartment in a crowd, she realized: the client is not at all crazy! Behind the plinth, a black box was found - a source of ultrasonic vibrations. Who threw her...
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Genre: Detectives"My wife is a witch!" - said Kirill Potvorov, a new client of the Niro detective agency. Yes, this guy has big problems with his head, without saying a word, the owner of the agency Eleanor and her permanent secretary Ivan Podushkin decided. Now we need to somehow get rid of the madman. But it turned out to be not so easy to do so. Kirill agrees to leave Nora's apartment only if Ivan goes with him to a country house where Kirill's wife Anya now lives with her businessman lover. As the detectives expected, the guy did not have all the houses ... Returning ...
Angel on a broomstick
Genre: Detectives“There would be no happiness, but misfortune helped!” - Ivan Pavlovich Podushkin, the permanent secretary of the Niro detective agency, was convinced of the correctness of this proverb. Vanya became the owner of a new car, which he received as a fee from the editor-in-chief of the Rush Hour newspaper. He asks Podushkin to figure out an employee who leaks exclusive information to competitors. Ivan Pavlovich was lucky, on the very first day he learned the name of the traitor. This is Natasha Kapustina. However, a bummer came out! She had a solid alibi. In addition, Kapustina admitted: she is his ...
Butterfly in plaster
Genre: DetectivesEver since I, Evlampia Romanova, had an affair with Max Wolf, my life has been full of surprises and practical jokes! This time, Max took a photo-montage where I communicate with the president in a friendly way, and decorated with this cute picture a rented house where I had to move during the renovation in Mopsino. This turned out to be a fatal mistake! The new neighbors took the photo at face value and decided that Lamp was not just a dog lover and unemployed private investigator, she was on friendly terms with the mighty of the world this! So I had to solve another detective puzzle……
Pool with crocodiles
Genre: DetectivesDasha Vasilyeva woke up in a burning room. On the sofa next to her lay a naked man. Looking closely, she realized that this was her boss, Igor Markov. He was dead... To prove her innocence in Markov's death, Dasha must find the real killers. Trying to cover their tracks, they remove everyone who could expose them. Dasha's entire family is under threat. But the killers still do not know that their opponent is not a fragile and defenseless woman, but an experienced private detective, who has more than one unraveled case under her belt...
Monomakh's Crazy Cap
Genre: DetectivesJust some kind of absurdity! Now, when I, Evlampia Romanova - you can just Lamp - found a job in a detective agency, I have to die of boredom. No clients and that's it! But I wouldn't be me if I didn't invite adventure on my head. My first hard-earned client claims her husband died in a car accident, twice. So I'll have to check: is this true, or did I manage to contact a crazy woman! All one to one! It seems that my good friend also went crazy - he decided to try on Monomakh's crazy cap! ..
white horse on prince
Genre: DetectivesWhat to do if a mischievous brownie wound up in the house - important documents all the time disappear to no one knows where? They need to be securely hidden!.. Before visiting the bank, Dasha Vasilyeva visited the doctor, who gave her “beauty shots”, and they didn’t let her into the hall for VIP clients - her face was monstrously swollen. In the meantime, they found out who this monster with the passport of Dasha Vasilyeva was, there was a robbery in the bank! The attackers took away the most precious thing - a folder with priceless documents. You can’t go home, tear your hair out and repent to your relatives for all sins! Otherwise you won't get ridicule...
March cat benefit
Genre: DetectivesDasha Vasilyeva is catastrophically lucky for corpses!.. As soon as she agreed to go to a classical music concert with an imposing man Stas Komolov - and now he is already a corpse. During the intermission, Dasha ran for him to get water and drops, she thought he was sick from stuffiness, but he take it and die. And the next day, the cops came to her house. They clearly suspect Dasha of the murder. What to do? Of course, run! And now she is already at the Kursk railway station with a bag in one hand and the pug Khuch in the other. Behind the back of a lover of private investigation, there is more than one solved crime, and therefore ...
If you like the way Daria Dontsova writes, the novelties of 2017 are at your disposal. These are the author's new books. Below is a list of books in order for the entire year.
Gingerbread with black caviar
A new case has appeared for Evlampia Romanova. Now she needed to deal with the death of a neighbor in a very short time. Evlampia was sure that Nadezhda Vladimirovna had not committed suicide. The character of the neighbor is not the same. And the very place where this murder took place was strange. The feeling that someone specially created something like a detective story and arranged the situation for the house where Lamp and Max had recently moved in. And before the detectives had time to understand what happened to Nadezhda Vladimirovna, another neighbor died here. It seems that he did not live, but rented out housing, but apparently unknown people in a car knocked him down for a reason. Who needed an old woman and a summer resident so much? Farther
Amulet from Spanish passion
Tatyana Sergeevna is preparing for the anniversary of her husband. But she has not yet decided where exactly she will organize a surprise party. And then music producer Nikita Igrov showed up at the office. He said that Anna Lavrova, his ward, is now in a coma due to swallowing pills. Rocker Chris Gumby is accused of this incident, who allegedly disguised everything as a suicide. The entire investigation is built on Chris's hatred for Lavrova because she easily moved him on a musical pedestal. However, Chris also ended up in the clinic due to a microstroke, but ran away from there in the end. The producer of the Games asks Tatyana Sergeevna to find the singer Chris so that all suspicions are removed from him. Farther
Pedigree to the seventh log
Dasha Vasilyeva discovered that the so-called Count's ruins were located near her house. Studying them, she found tombstones, and next to them - a male corpse. Vasilyeva, of course, was not afraid of the corpse. However, this was the second appearance of the deceased today. Early in the morning, the corpse of another person was found near Dasha's house - an unfamiliar woman who, for some reason, came to visit her. Colonel Degtyarev did not want Dasha to start an investigation, but an amateur detective cannot leave the case to others. Farther
Who lives in a suitcase?
Nicoletta Podushkina asks her son Ivan to accommodate a guest, Henry von Dupre. A foreigner arrived in Russia for a bride. And as soon as the stranger was in the office of their detective agency, a strange thing immediately happened: loud noises were heard, women's belongings fell, and some object attacked a dog named Demyanka. At this time, Galina Mikhailovna Lapina arrives. She asks to investigate the case of the kidnapping of her granddaughter. It turns out that Galina Mikhailovna is being asked for a ransom of 160,000 rubles. It seems to Ivan Pavlovich that the girl staged her abduction, but the truth is much more complicated. Farther
Naked star dress
Stepanida Kozlova loves to help people, but she did not even suspect that she would face a set-up when she promised the girl to find her mother. Vera Chernova owns a real estate agency. She ended up in a pre-trial detention center, as she is accused of murder. According to the prosecution, she slipped poison to the clients and stole their money, which they were saving for an apartment. In the detention center, Vera Chernova meets with the ghost of Saltychikha, who forbade her to talk. In general, the story turned out to be very creepy, but Kozlova will cope with the riddles. Farther
The law of the apple of youth
Viola Tarakanova is preparing for the wedding with Stepan. While her fiancé is on a business trip, Viola is on an adventure again. While having lunch in a restaurant, she becomes an eyewitness to the murder of the mother of a rich man, Ferin, who ordered a novel from the writer. It turns out that the shooter was also a former classmate of that businessman. It is not clear why the historian suddenly began to shoot? Viola Tarakanova did not even know what she would find when she plunged into the thick of things. Farther
Phoenix bird horoscope
A friend of Evlampia Romanova asked her to take her father and a little chihuahua into her home. So Drum Sosisovich settled with Evlampia, as Evlampia's family called the guest. The lamp did not expect that now the entire refrigerator would be full of sausages, it was necessary to grow a strange plant, and even listen to melodies from music books. But she needs to work and catch criminals. A new case is already on the way: Elena Rylskaya turned to Lampa, in which all her relatives suddenly died. Farther
Astral body of a bachelor
Nicoletta Podushkina - Ivan's mother - decided that it was time to leave her rich husband for Vanya's new love. This Vanya was a famous designer and owner of the Crazy Fred TV show. In the meantime, Ivan Podushkin was investigating the death of Father Dionysius, who was rector in a church in the small town of Boysk. A lot has happened here in 30 years, and some of the events turned out to be tragic. Farther
Nightclub on Lysa Gora
Dasha Vasilyeva clutches her head, because a real commotion began in her house. Either guests die, or friends disappear. But how does all this relate to the society "Witches of the Moscow Region"? It turned out that Dasha was recorded as a witch, and her husband was dragged here. Although Dasha herself and Professor Manevin have no idea about this. But this story began long ago, when people in Russia did not yet know about such a holiday as Halloween. Farther
The lion's share of the gray mouse
Tatyana Sergeevna was lucky to see the brownie. Outwardly, he looked like a huge shaggy mouse with square ears. But where such an incomprehensible miracle appeared in the house, she could not yet answer. Farther
Incognito from Broadway
None normal person you don't want his name to be associated with theft, let alone murder. However, Viola Tarakanova's daddy is pleased with this. He thinks it's great PR. Although Viola herself does not like it at all that she is accused of the death of Baba Tosi, the healer. Of course, Viola is not involved in the murder of the sorceress, but so far nothing can be done about it and she has to investigate. Meanwhile, Viola's sister Faina appears at home with the same surname. However, she is not a sister at all, and besides, she was a very unpleasant person. Farther
wish tower
Katya and Nikita met the toad Gustav. It turns out he needs help - he can't get out of the basement. Gustav asks his new friends to take the magic compass to Ivan Sergeevich, but at the same time he instructs them that if Ivan Sergeevich thanks them, then in no case should they take gifts from him. However, the guys didn’t have much a good idea and they did a bad deed, as a result they had to go to the valley to the wishing tower. Farther
Zephyrka has always been the best dressmaker in the Beautiful Valley, but now she has left her home to go to the human world and become Viktor Kuznetsov's keeper there. However, Ksyusha and Misha saw Zefirka, and thinking that the dog was lost, they took her home. Once in a family of cooks, the pug realized that the family needed help. Marshmallow will have to work hard so that her new familiar family finally finds happiness. Farther
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Daria Dontsova is a Russian writer who for many years was recognized as the most widely read author of adult literature, thanks to which she became the winner of the Bestseller of the Year and Writer of the Year awards.
But above all, Dontsova is known as a woman who managed to defeat cancer. Her experience helps her inspire hundreds and thousands of sick people to fight the disease.
Childhood and youth
Daria Dontsova (real name - Agrippina Arkadyevna Dontsova) was born in Moscow in 1952 in a creative family. At birth, the girl was named Agrippina in honor of her grandmother. At the time of the birth of the daughter, the parents were not yet officially registered, since the father was in a previous marriage. The couple formalized the relationship only in 1959. My father was a writer, and my mother worked as a director at the Mosconcert.
At first, the family lived in a barracks. When it was disbanded, Agrippina and her grandmother had to live without parents for a year, because the room that was allocated to the family was too small. Only in 1957 did they receive a new spacious apartment in a new building next to the Airport station. Eminent guests often gathered at the parents' house, so Daria was personally acquainted with the writer and lover.
Parents took care of the development of Agrippina, so they sent her to a music school, but it turned out that the girl was deprived of the ability to play music. In her school years, the future writer was not distinguished by success in the knowledge of the exact sciences. But she enjoyed learning. foreign languages.
Since preschool age Agrippina showed a penchant for languages. She had 2 nannies - a Frenchwoman and a German. They hardly spoke Russian, which had a positive effect on the girl's education. In 1964, as a schoolgirl, she visited Germany with her father - there the local publishing house was going to publish a work of his authorship. From Germany, the girl brought with her a lot of books on German. At a young age she was fascinated literary works by various authors, including foreign ones.
Books
Possessing a penchant for the humanities, the girl entered the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. After graduating from the university, she worked for 2 years in the Syrian consulate of the USSR as a French translator. Returning from Syria, Daria was a journalist for 7 years in the print media "Fatherland" and "Vechernyaya Moskva".
The first story was written in 1984, but in the magazine "Youth" the literary tests of the girl did not interest anyone. However, the writer did not despair and tried herself in a different genre.
In 1999, the first detective "Tough Heirs" appeared under the pseudonym Daria Dontsova. The heroine was Dasha Vasilyeva, who, by chance, took up a private investigation. Dontsova wrote this cheerful, cheerful book while lying in the hospital in the oncology department. When Daria finished her treatment, 5 works were already ready for printing.
The first detective was received with a bang by the readers, everyone wanted a sequel, and of course it followed. Dontsova's books are published by the EKSMO publishing house, in total Daria has written more than 100 detective stories, with a circulation of more than 230 million copies. Each new novel by the writer becomes an indispensable bestseller.
In Russia, Dontsova is considered one of the most published writers. She writes one novel in a month. In the Russian Guinness Book of Records, the writer is recorded as the most prolific author. Daria's novels are read in Russia, the countries of the former USSR, as well as in China and Western Europe.
Daria's books are considered a cure for depression, in each work one can feel the inexhaustible optimism of the writer. Fans of her work believe that Dontsova's autograph brings good luck.
A woman works not only in the detective genre. The list of author's publications includes the book " cookbook Lazybones, where accessible recipes for novice housewives are presented in the form of simple manuals. Dontsova also wrote the book "Notes of a Mad Optimist" of an autobiographical nature.
However, of course, her detectives brought popularity and prosperity to Daria. Based on their motives, series were filmed, where the main characters were Dasha Vasilyeva, Ivan Podushkin, and Viola Tarakanova. Popular actors of our time participated in the filming of film adaptations -,. It is interesting that in the film of the series “Lover of Private Investigation Dasha Vasilyeva-4”, the writer herself appeared, performing a cameo.
Daria Dontsova at the Books of Russia festival Daria Dontsova is a three-time winner of the Writer of the Year award, twice received the Bestseller of the Year award from the Book Review newspaper, and also became a laureate of the Book of the Year competition. In 2003, Dontsova's star appeared on the literary "Square of Stars" on Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow. In 2005, the writer received the Order of the First Class with a ribbon for merit in the field of literature and personal contribution.
Gradually, the famous writer put the creation of detective stories on stream. Her fantastic literary prolificness allowed her to gain a wide audience. In her creative biography there are works of various genres, and fans immediately disassemble the novelties.
Daria Dontsova's book "A Stamp on the Heart of a Vamp Woman" For many years, Dontsova's books have remained in the top of the most popular among Russian readers. Editions come out in millions of copies and do not gather dust on the shelves of bookstores. Her works continue to be popular in Russia, and in 2016 the book Stamp on a Woman's Heart was published.
The writer herself once admitted that she falls into a creative impulse when she begins work on a new work:
“When I write, I am in some semi-conscious state. If in the novel there is cold, snow, wind, I begin to freeze, despite the fact that the heat outside the window is unbearable. At a certain point, my characters get out of control and begin to live independent lives. Somehow one of the characters winked at me and said: “But I killed something, me, and you didn’t even guess!”. Well, they got really bold."
Dontsova's autobiographical book “I really want to live. My personal experience" In 2012, the writer released an autobiographical book, “I really want to live. My personal experience." In this work, Dontsova shares her experience of defeating a terrible disease - cancer. Daria contracted breast cancer in 1998.
Disease
The writer repeatedly spoke in an interview about how she defeated the disease. Doctors gave the writer a terrible diagnosis - cancer. She had to endure 18 operations, several radiation sessions, and also undergo numerous courses of chemotherapy.
Daria Dontsova defeated cancer She was admitted to the hospital already at the 4th stage of the disease and at first she underwent 3 operations. There was no hope for a full recovery, but Dontsova did not lose heart and overcame a terrible disease. She is an optimist in life and, while in the hospital ward, began to write ironic detective stories to distract herself from the terrible reality. A brave woman managed to avoid depression and recover. In 2008, Daria was chosen as an ambassador for the Together Against Breast Cancer charity program organized by Avon.
The writer inspires cancer patients to fight the disease and helps with the purchase of the necessary equipment for the country's clinics. The fee from the publication of the novel "The Emperor of the Village of Gadyukino" Daria transferred to the account of the Russian Cancer scientific center named after N. N. Blokhin.
Daria Dontsova at the charity march "Together Against Breast Cancer" She had to deal with an extremely serious illness, which is actually a demoralizing factor for many people. What broke others made the famous writer stronger. Dontsova was able to overcome breast cancer, and oncology did not become an obstacle for a woman on the way to achieving her goal. Her readers claim that it was a serious illness that opened Dontsova's writing talent. The first novels became bestsellers.
Shortly after her treatment, Dontsova told the media that the words “chemotherapy” and “irradiation” create eerie associations for people, but these are just “far-fetched myths.” The writer, who managed to go through such suffering, said that all this is not as scary as others imagine.
Personal life
The personal life of the famous writer repeatedly made sharp turns. Daria got married 3 times, and only the last marriage turned out to be happy. Dontsova met her first chosen one, Dmitry Demin, at an early age, as a first-year student. A romantic meeting on the coast of Koktebel brought young people down the aisle. In this union, the first-born of the writer, the son of Arkady, was born. But the marriage broke up before the birth of the heir.
The second husband of Daria was Boris Kapustin. The young man was a witness at the writer's first wedding. This meeting was fatal for both. The relationship lasted 7 years, after which the couple parted as friends. Boris left to teach at Yale University.
Dontsova has been married for many years, this is her third marriage. The writer's husband's name is Alexander, they have children - a common daughter Maria and two sons - Arkady and Dmitry - from Dontsov's first marriage. Native children have already made Daria a grandmother. Grandson Nikita is growing up in the son's family, and Masha's boy Mikhail was born in 2015.
The Dontsov family remains friendly and close-knit to this day. Alexander supported Daria during oncology treatment. Before the crucial operation, the writer asked her husband if he would stay with her after the mastectomy. To which Alexander replied that even if only one ear remains from his wife, he will live with this ear.
Fans of the writer know her hobby - pets. Dontsova has a special weakness for pugs, making these cute dogs part of her own image. 4 pugs live in Daria's house. They are accompanied by a cat of the British breed and a turtle.
In addition to the fact that photos of pugs regularly adorn the covers of all the author's books, almost every post in a personal "Instagram" she dedicates to four-legged pets.
Daria Dontsova now
The writer continues to participate in events dedicated to supporting cancer patients. In 2018, Daria became the TV presenter of the author's program "I really want to live" on the Spas channel. The program features people who live with a serious illness or have managed to overcome all difficulties and recover. In one issue, the guest of the project was a singer who suffers from diabetes. The disease did not prevent the artist from making a solo career.
Daria Dontsova does not forget about her passion for cooking. She became the heroine of the program “Save me, I don’t know how to cook” on the TVC channel, where she taught the TV presenter of the project to cook.
Now the woman is passionate about writing children's stories, the first reader of which is her youngest grandson Mikhail. In September 2018, the author presented to the attention of readers another work "Wonderland" from the series "Tales of the Beautiful Valley".
Daria Dontsova on the program "The Fate of a Man" in 2018A new book in the same series, Dragon Village, is scheduled to be released in December. The main characters of the story are the inhabitants of the country Mopshaus, members of the pug family. Sisters Cook and Marshmallow go in search of their relatives, who were stolen by a dragon.
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