Today we will talk about who Olga Grigoryeva is. Her books are popular, so you should talk about this person. This is a Russian writer who creates works in the fantasy genre. In youth, our heroine has repeatedly been the champion of the country's swimming championships. Later, she actively took up writing.
Sports career
Grigoryeva Olga was born in 1966, on November 15, in Leningrad. In her youth, she was actively engaged in swimming. Successfully graduated from high school. She became a student of the State Institute of Physical Culture P.F. Lesgaft. During her second year of study, Olga Grigoryeva received an offer to transfer to the faculty of journalism at St. Petersburg University. However, she refused. As a swimmer, she became an eight-time champion of the Soviet Union. She is also a world-class master of sports and winner of many Spartakiads and European Championships. Graduated from university. She became a coach in the Navy basin. She worked as an instructor in 1980-1985. Later, she got a job in the Spartak voluntary sports society. There she worked as an instructor in 1986–1987. After that, she returned to the Navy Sports Club. She worked there until 1996.
Creative activity
Grigoryeva Olga was not going to devote herself to writing works. However, she has a brother Dmitry - a prose writer and poet. The first book of our heroine “Ladoga” was published in 1996. The writer admits that she wrote this work for her son so that he would not be bored. The work took place in transport during frequent trips to the country. After the publication and the first success, our heroine took up the study of Scandinavian and Slavic history. In 1997, Berserk was created, a repeatedly reprinted novel from the Scandinavian cycle. Soon the work “The Sorcerer” was released, which describes a fantastic version of the development of events that took place before the baptism of Russia. In the period 1999-2000, our heroine worked on a joint project with Kolosov Vladimir Valerievich - writer. Both authors took the common pseudonym Felix Yusupov and published three novels. All of them belong to the genre of ironic detective story. After that, our heroine left the project. Further works of Felix Yusupov were created only by Vladimir Kolosov. Since 2002, the writer began to collaborate with a publishing house called Krylov. As a result, her books from the genre of historical Slavic fantasy were published: “Raid”, “Flock” and “Favorite”. In 2007, the writer returned to the topic of the first book. As a result, the novels were continued sequels "The Holy Ghost" and "Shadow of the Wolf." Both novels ended up in a collection called Staraya Ladoga.
Bibliography
Grigorieva Olga in 1996 published the book "Ladoga". In 1997, the works “Berserker” and “The Witch Doctor” appeared. In 1999, the book Found was published. In 2002, the work “Favorite” appeared. In 2005, the book The Flock was published. In 2006, the Scandinavian cycle continued with the Raid. In 2007, the books “Shadow of the Wolf”, “The Sacred Ghost” and a collection entitled “Old Ladoga” were published. In 2008, the work “Wheel of the Witches” was published. Under the pseudonym Felix Yusupov, together with V. Kolosov, books were written: “Taming of Fear”, as well as “Nikita and the Angel”.
Awards and prizes
Grigoryeva Olga in 2007 became the winner of the Gogol Prize. Her book The Raid was recognized as the best prose work. In 2008, a cycle called "Staraya Ladoga" was awarded the Bast Prize. The award was presented at the Eighth Literary and Practical Conference. In this case, Grigorieva took real historical facts and characters as the basis of the story, but on this foundation she managed to create a mystical and mysterious picture of events. Thus, she remained faithful to her favorite fantasy genre.