Biography

Darya Dontsova is a Russian writer of detective novels, scriptwriter, TV presenter and member of the Union of Writers of Russia.

Since early childhood parents were trying to teach Dontsova music and literature. For a start she was taken to music school and there the headmistress, having listened to the girl, said that "for the first time faced with such a case, when the bear came not on the ear, and sat on her head entirely and sits there until now." Then parents, as a music fan themselves, began to take Dontsova to the conservatory, theater, opera and ballet.

At school, Dontsova, according to her, did not enjoy a special prestige among classmates. She was very good at the humanities and foreign languages, but she was very bad at the mathematical sciences. Even before she went to school, she had two governesses. One was an ethnic German woman, the second - a Frenchwoman, and that is why the two did not speak Russian. So before going to school Dontsova learned to speak German and French well. However, she was more successful in learning German when in 1964 went with her father to Germany,she brought a bunch of detectives, that is why many detective classics - Dick Francis, Rex Stout, Georgette Heyer, James Hadley Chase - Dontsova first read in German.

Due to the fact that her father was a writer, Dontsova all summer vacation spent in Peredelkino.She was a very close friend with Valentin Kataev granddaughter and also she made friends with Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy.
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