Polina Panassenko (born 3 March 1989 in Moscow (USSR)), is a French-Russian writer, translator and actor.
In 1993, her family emigrated to France, to Saint-Étienne where her mathematician-father Grigory Panassenko obtained a position at the university.
The day after the fall of the USSR, Polina's family arrived in France and her first name was Frenchified as "Pauline".
[2] The narrator is then confronted with a double identity: Polina at home, Pauline at school.
[10] Panassenko is also the author of a short story, There is no sex in the USSR, and of the play The Queen of Silence, directed by Arnaud Meunier at the Centre Dramatique National de Saint-Étienne.