Alexandra Marinina
Genres
Detective Fiction
Biography
Alexandra Marinina (real name - Alexeeva Marina Anatolievna) was born in 1957 in Lvov, Ukraine and until 1971 lived in Leningrad. She moved to Moscow in 1971 and graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University in 1979. She began her service career as a technician and in 1980 she was promoted to Lieutenant of the Militia. She made a study of offenders with mental abnormalities and violent reoffenders. From 1987, she was engaged in analyzing and forecasting crime.
In February 1998, she retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia. In 1991, she began her literary career with the publication in the journal “Militia” of a detective story entitled “The Six-Winged Seraph”, which she co-authored with her colleague A. Gorkin.
In 1992, she started writing a series of detective novels, in which the main character, Anastasia Kamenskaya, is the operations officer of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. In addition, she has written numerous prose works, the most significant of which is the family saga The One Who Knows, as well as several plays.
In 1995, Marina was awarded the Russian Interior Ministry prize for the best work on the Russian police. In 1998, the Moscow International Book Fair recognized A. Marinina as ‘Writer of the Year’ and in 2006 she was awarded the ‘Writer of the Decade’ prize. Her works have been translated and published in more than 25 countries worldwide.