Daria Simonova, writer: biography, creativity

The main characters of the works of this famous writer are women, immersed in their daily lives. All her stories and stories are read in one breath, as a single whole. From the first pages of the reader delays into the cycle of numerous women's problems. There is no doubt a connection with modern women's prose - romantic and ironic. Something in it is mystical and symbolic, as in the writer who writes it. Who are we talking about? Of course, about Daria Vsevolodovna Simonova. Who is this woman, where did she come from and how did she come to the horizon of our literature? We will try to reveal the veil over this mystery in our article.

Childhood

Little is known about Dasha's childhood. Let's start with the fact that the future writer was born under the surname Okulova. A young talent appeared on November 3, 1972 in the city of Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). Although many of Russia's talents live in the capital of our homeland, they are born, as a rule, somewhere on the periphery. Ekaterinburg, of course, is difficult to call a small provincial town, especially for those who have been there at least once, but it is not Moscow.

Darya Simonova studied at school No. 110. As she studied, history is silent, but it is for certain that she was accepted as a young correspondent by the schoolgirl Dasha as a young correspondent in the newspapers "For Change" and "Evening Sverdlovsk", which means a lot. As you know, the reporters did not take anyone who got into such newspapers. In addition, the cadet must perfectly know spelling and grammar, and our language is great and powerful, sometimes it is not easy to overcome it. Based on these "indirect evidence" we can conclude that Dasha studied well. As we can see, by the end of the school the girl has already firmly determined her vocation. In 1989, Daria Okulova received her secondary education.

Student

In the same year Daria Simonova entered the Ural University at the Faculty of Journalism. Apparently, successfully enough ends the first course, because as a practice gets not somewhere, but in Leningrad (St. Petersburg).

And here her writings were noted and appreciated. The editorial office of the large-circulation newspaper Trudovoye Znamya praised her work positively. All her materials were published. The editor noted "the courage of judgments, a serious approach to facts, an original and lively style of their presentation." With such wonderful reviews and recommendations, Dasha Okulov is returning to study further in Sverdlovsk.

Correspondent

However, after completing her senior studies, Daria Simonova decides to devote herself entirely to journalism. She writes an application for transfer to the correspondence department and leaves to work in St. Petersburg. Here she writes articles for the newspapers "Nevsky Courier", "Business Review", "Natalie" and "Savva." Also her materials were published in the newspapers "Mariinsky Theater", "Nevsky Time" and many others. Darya Vsevolodovna Okulova's articles have enjoyed a certain success, due to their authenticity, beauty and simplicity of presentation. During the downtime in correspondent activities, Dasha worked as a postman, a cleaning woman, and a billboard poster. But in the life of every writer, one day a turning point comes when the real world suddenly becomes too tight for your thoughts and feelings. I want to expand the borders and add something of my own.

Writer

This was the moment for Dasha. Perhaps she decided that journalism does not give you the opportunity to reveal yourself, to throw out all your thoughts and feelings. Whatever it was, but in 1994, after graduating from university, Okulov decided to leave journalism and devote himself entirely to literature. In 1996 in the third issue of the magazine "Ural" came the first two stories: "Easy" and "Continuation". Already in the following year, in 1997, in the same magazine comes the story "Shusha". In the work the author's surname still appears as Okulova, but in the same year the magazine "Novy mir" publishes her story "Sweet smell of second hands" under the name of Daria Simonova. The writer becomes famous. Then all other works will be published under a new surname.

Moscow

In 1995, Daria Vsevolodovna Simonova moved to Moscow. She worked in the family firm "Arts and Crafts." Then I had to work as a proofreader in the printing house firm. In 1998, she took part in the Festival of Small Prose dedicated to the 180th anniversary of the birth of Turgenev. In Moscow, the publishing house Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (The New Literary Review) in 2000 published a collection devoted entirely to this festival. It included short parables, presented by Daria Simonova. Then, in 2003, I worked as an editor in the magazine "I'm buying." In any case, after moving to the capital, her works begin to be published in many Moscow publications, such as the herald of young literature "Babylon" and many others.

The zero years were quite fruitful for the writer. In 2001, in the second issue of the international literary magazine Khreshchatyk, her story "The Specter of the Decorations" was published.

Further, in 2002, an anthology of prose was published in Moscow in 2 volumes "Vagriuz-proza 1992-2002". This included Darya Simonova's story "Polovtsian Dances".

In the same year she published her first book.

"Polovtsian Dances"

The book, issued by the publishing house "Vagrius", easily mastered the minds and hearts of readers, became insanely popular among fans of the genre. A brief summary of the book revealed its subject and direction. The works included in this collection are read as one whole story about the lives of young people who have their own set of rules, language, a system of values and their own wisdom, often contradictory. For example: life is too important to take it seriously, and therefore the one who has lost something is always a winner, even if nothing is working, if the relatives do not understand. So they live, either an unthinkable carnival, or an eternal carousel of being. And it becomes unclear where this thin line lies between farce and real drama. "Polovtsian dances" - what can I say?

What else can you add? Only that the book is read easily and in one breath is written about ordinary people and for ordinary people.

A few years later, the publishing house "Tsentrpoligraf" publishes two more books by Darya Simonova: "Narrow Gates" (2007) and "Swingers" (2008). I would especially like to note the first.

"Narrow gates"

A novel based on real events about a young ballerina who painfully experiences how her own mother once gave her to an orphanage. Even becoming a famous ballet star, she can not forget this pain. A talented teacher helps create wonderful images on her stage. But all this is transient. And pain comes back again and again, through betrayal of loved ones, through behind-the-scenes envy, through loneliness.

Epilogue

The heroes of our writer are people of free professions or generally incomprehensible occupations. They lead a life that can be called, rather, ephemeral. It is important for the writer what is going on with their inner world in the process of plot development.

Daria Simonova, whose books are read in one breath, actively tries herself in other genres. She is the author of several historical and literary genealogical publications.

Also in 2011, a detective novel "The Fifteenth Stone", written together with Elena Strindadkina, was published.

Books by Darya Simonova:

1. "Polovtsian Dances".
2. D. Simonova, E. Strindadkina - "The Fifteenth Stone".
3. "Swingers" (also called "Pheromones of Montferrand").
4. "Narrow gates."
5. "Chancre".
6. "Ping-pong is alive."