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  Alexandra Marinina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marinina was born in Lvov, Ukraine to a family of lawyers.
Marinina started writing in 1991, when, together with her colleague Alexander Gorky, she wrote a detective story that was published in magazine Militsiya.
She was recognized as "The Writer of Year" on 1998 Moscow International Book Fair, based on the sales of the books in 1997, and received the award of Ogonyok magazine in the category "Success of the Year" in 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marinina   (329 words)

  
 marinina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1998 on Moscow international book fair she was recognized as " the Writer of year " as the author which books in 1997 have been sold most.
Within last three years books by Aleksandra Marinina have been published more than in 20 languages.
A television series "Kamenskaya" based on Marinina's eight novels was shown on national Russian TV, and also in Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, France.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Marinina.html   (315 words)

  
 Russian literature at Cozy Corner:Marina Anatolyevna Alekseeva (pen name - Alexandra Marinina)
Marina Anatolyevna Alekseeva (pen name - Alexandra Marinina) was born on July 16, 1957, in Lvov to a family of lawyers.
As a Candidate of Law (the equivalent of a Ph.D), Marinina has over 40 theoretical publications, including the monograph "Crime and Crime Prevention in Moscow" (in English), which was published by the UN.
Marinina was declared "Writer of the Year" at the XI Moscow International Book Fair.
www.cozy-corner.com /book/lit/marinina.htm   (648 words)

  
 Sun, by D H Lawrence
Marinina was a woman over sixty, tall, thin, erect, with curling dark grey hair, and dark grey eyes that had the shrewdness of thousands of years in them, with the laugh that underlies all long experience.
Marinina was a woman of Magna Graæcia, and had far memories.
Marinina paused for a moment, seeing the naked woman standing alert, her sun-faded fair hair in a little cloud.
www.geocities.com /andtherewaswater/Archive/Sun.htm   (5863 words)

  
 Elena V. Baraban, University of Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While Marinina’s plots have an affinity with classical mysteries, and her interpretation of the milieu and commentary on the social order in Russia link her novels to the hard-boiled detective fiction, Marinina’s strategy in depicting characters connects her novels to Soviet culture.
In the actual past, the values professed by Marinina were often criticized in the unofficial popular culture; in the 1990s, they are absorbed into popular entertainment with their embarrassing aspects erased from memory.
Marinina’s ideal reader is nostalgic not about the concrete order of things that existed in reality in the past but about the myths of the past, the ability to live in utopia, the capacity to be optimistic even if only self-deceived.
aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2003/abstracts/Baraban.htm   (472 words)

  
 Russian culture navigator
Alexandra Marinina, in real life Marina Alexeyeva, is one of the most popular Russian detective writers.
Marinina gets irritated when she is called a Russian Agatha Cristie.
Just like Marinina, Anastasia hates housework and her husband has to take on the duties of a housekeeper to the delights of feminists.
www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch141_eng.html   (1545 words)

  
 Mystery Maven
But Marinina has struck back with the support of NTV television, which is now showing screen versions of her novels.
Kamenskaya is so positive and virtuous that Marinina had to "vitalize" her with many negative and a few wholesome, but unimportant, traits.
Snobs and/or discerning readers and TV viewers have criticized Marinina, and now the film director of the TV saga, Yury Moroz, for the weak, feebleminded plots of her creations.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/06/17/104-print.html   (460 words)

  
 Alexandra Marinina - TheBestLinks.com - July 16, Leningrad, Moscow, Militia, ...
Alexandra Marinina - TheBestLinks.com - July 16, Leningrad, Moscow, Militia,...
Alexandra Marinina, July 16, Leningrad, Moscow, Militia, Russia, Ukraine, 1957...
Marinina started writing in 1991, when, together with her colleague Alexander Gorky, she wrote a detective story that was published in magazine "Militia".
www.thebestlinks.com /Alexandra_Marinina.html   (346 words)

  
 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marina Anatolyevna Alexeyeva (pen name - Alexandra Marinina) was born on July 16, 1957, in Lvov to a family of lawyers.
Let's try to do your hair in different way and take off the glasses.
On the stand - Marinina's books in Italian.
www.marinina.ru /english/life.html   (672 words)

  
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At present the most popular of these homegrown writers is Aleksandra Marinina (pseudonym of retired police Lieutenant Colonel Marina Alekseeva) has to date published 18 novels, and sales of her books in Russia reportedly reached 10 million copies last year alone.
While Marinina's readership apparently crosses gender lines, her particular mix of detective novel, police procedural, and romance seems to hold a special appeal for female readers.
This paper will examine Marinina's works in relation to Western theoretical writing on feminist and "post-feminist" detective fiction in order to trace the roots of Marinina's popularity to anxieties about the destabilization of traditional gender roles in contemporary Russian culture.
www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au /russian/old-conf/nepom.htm   (197 words)

  
 Crime and Pulp - The new Russian literature: more Elmore Leonard than Leo Tolstoy. By Vijai Maheshwari
To the dismay of traditionalists, pulp writers have become the dominant influence in contemporary Russian literature.
Most prominent among them is a former lieutenant-colonel with the police, Aleksandra Marinina, who has written 17 novels featuring a female detective, Anastasia Kamenskaya, who single-handedly takes on the Russian mafia.
The Rambo-like hero of his bestselling novels is a Russian veteran of the Afghan war who does violent battle against the Russian mafia.
www.slate.com /id/2090622   (1300 words)

  
 Alexandra MARININA : astrology and planets, Map of the Heavens and Interactive Birth Chart
Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Alexandra MARININA.
Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event.
Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Alexandra MARININA and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/YDd2dYMBP5m6.htm   (497 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ludmila K. Marinina– professor, Head of the department safety of life, Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of
Marinina L. The safeguarding of the vital activity is the sustainable development line
Vasin A.I., Marinina L.K. Researches interrelations of thermal stability and fire danger of color-maker component
www.muctr.edu.ru /~congress2/is-e4.htm   (496 words)

  
 Alexandra Marinina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She has written more then 20 novels, published in 170 editions, over 17 million copies, translated into over 20 languages.
A television series "Kamenskaya" based on eight of Marinina's novels was shown on national Russian TV, Germany, France and other countries.
Alexandra Marinina from The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
www.lvov.us /famous-people/Alexandra-Marinina.aspx   (59 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Poll: only Russian authors got into the ten of the best writers
The second place in this rating took Alexander Solzhenitsin, Lev Tolstoy was the third, Mikhail Bulgakov was the second.
Alexandra Marinina, modern author of detective novels, well-known in Russia now, got into the ten of the best writers, too, IMA Press announces.
In fact, the inhabitants of Voronezh forgot Nobel Prize winners Boris Pasternak and Ivan Bunin, who, by the way, comes from Voronezh.
english.pravda.ru /main/2001/01/26/2186.html   (1854 words)

  
 M. S. Gorham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, “Markets, Mirrors, and Mayhem: Aleksandra Marinina and the Rise of the New Russian Detektiv,” in Consuming Culture, 161-91.
What distinctive gender-related issues seem to emerge from Marinina's fiction?
What sort of social commentary does her fiction offer with regard to contemporary politics and crime?
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/mgorham/RUT2502_StudyQuestions_Nepomnyashchy.html   (109 words)

  
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