Platova, Victoria

He lives and works in St. Petersburg . She graduated from VGIK specialty screenwriter. Since the mid 1990s. writes action detectives. The first book, “In the still waters”, was published in 1998.

Since 2004 he has been working in the mystical detective genre; The author defines it as a “psychopathological thriller”, “ magical realism ”. Through theme of creativity: a man in the border state ( escapism ).

At present, Victoria Platov's works are published in the AST Publishing House and the EKSMO Publishing House .

Based on the works of Victoria Platova, the following TV series were filmed: “The Cinderella Hunt” (the writer took part in the script), “The Knife in the Clouds” , “The Battle of the Ladybugs”, “Taxi for the Angel”, “Death on the Tip of the Tail”, “The Great Wind” , clear day".

Works of Victoria Platovoy translated into several European languages ​​(books published in the Netherlands, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland).

Roman Victoria Platovaya "8-9-8" (2008) was included in the long-list of works admitted to participate in the competition for the Russian Booker Prize. The novel was not on the short list.

• "In the still waters" (1998)
• Monster Doll (1999)
• The scaffold of oblivion (1999)
• "Ship of ghosts" (1999)
• Devil's Font "(2000)
• The Crystal Trap (2000)
• "Death on the tip of the tail" (2000)
• "The ritual of the last wedding night" (2000-2001)
• "Battle of the Ladybugs" (2001)
• “Taxi for an Angel” (2001)
• "Lovers in the snow-covered garden" (2001)
• “Winning wind, clear day” (2002 - in collaboration with EKSMO); later published in the author's edition of the publishing house "AST".
• "Anouk, mon amour ..." (2004)
• “Horrible Innocents” (2005)
• “After Love” (2006)
• Thingle-Tangle (2006)
• "Bye-Bye, Baby" (2007)
• “8 → 9 → 8” (2008)
• “STALINGRAD. Metro Station (2008)
• "From the life of caramel" (2009)
• “Mary in Search of a Whale” (2010)
• "Strange incident in the rainy season" (2011)
• "Inspector and Butterfly" (2012)
• "Captured by Leviathan" (2013)
• “She is already dead” (2014)
• "Snakes and Ladders" (2015)
• “Two tickets to never” (2016)
• “What do red poppies hide” (2017)
• "Trap for birds" (2018)

• 2000 “The Cinderella Hunt” (14 episodes) (based on the novels “In the Still Waters”, “The Monster Doll” and “Oblivion Scaffold”)
• 2002 “The Knife in the Clouds” (8 episodes) (based on the novel “The Ritual of the Last Wedding Night”)
• 2005 “Ship of ghosts” (4 episodes) (according to the novel of the same name) (the project was not completed)
• 2006 “Battle of the Ladybugs” (4 episodes) (based on the novel of the same name)
• 2006 “Taxi for an Angel” (4 episodes) (according to the novel of the same name)
• 2007 “The Crystal Trap” (4 episodes) (according to the novel of the same name) (the project was not completed)
• 2009 “Uninvented murder” (4 episodes) (based on the novel “Death at the tip of the tail”)
• 2009 “Winning wind, clear day” (4 episodes) (according to the novel of the same name)
• 2015 “The past knows how to wait” (4 episodes) (based on the novel “She is already dead”)
• 2015 “Trap for the Star” (4 episodes) (original script, joint with Tatyana Okateva)
• 2018 “Northern Lights” (4 episodes) (original script, jointly with Bella Pribylova)
• 2018 "Devil's Font" (according to the novel of the same name)

After meeting with the Ukrainian singer Jamal at the festival “Manor. Jazz "in St. Petersburg wrote the lyrics for the song" I Love You. " On March 6, 2013, a new single of the Ukrainian singer Jamala was released , as well as a video clip for the song “Cactus”, the text to which was written by Jamal and Victoria Platova.

Victoria Solomatina managed to get through the court from Eksmo monetary compensation in the amount of five hundred thousand rubles for the fact that after the writer canceled the contract with Eksmo, this publishing house continued to produce other people's works under her name ^[2] .

The books “Death in the Fragments of a Vase Meben”, “Nubian Cross”, “Dance of Lakshmi” were written by Natalia Petrova under the pseudonym Victoria Platova (a mass writer of the detectives of the publishing house EKSMO).

• official site
• “Out of Life 3.14” on Facebook
• LJ community dedicated to the work of Victoria Platova
• conference (April 2006): https://web.archive.org/web/20080412015527/http://gazeta.aif.ru/conf/conf/110
• interview (april 2006): https://web.archive.org/web/20160305223726/http://www.ast.ru/opress/75/
• Interview (August 2007): http://www.torg.spb.ru/sr/2007/arch07/8star.htm (not available link)
• interview (march 2008): http://www.bn.ru/articles/2008/03/25/27176.html
• Reviews: http://www.mospravda.ru/issue/2007/12/25/article9817/?hl=%E2%E8%EA%F2%EE%F0%E8%FF+%EF%EB%E0%F2% EE% E2% E0 (unavailable link)
• http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/books/533196-echo/