Vadim Levental (born 25 October 1981) is a Russian editor and writer.
He was an editor at Limbus-Press publishing house from 2007 to 2017, and executive secretary of the National Bestseller literary award from 2014 to 2019.
Early life
Vadim Levental was born in Saint Petersburg. After attending Physics and Mathematics School No. 30 and Secondary School No. 27 he studied Russian Literature at Saint Petersburg State University, specialising in Literary Criticism and Editing.
Career In 2011, Levental wrote the idea of "Literary Matrix" collection of short stories mentioned by Neva magazine as "perhaps the most successful literary projects of the last few decades".Chatsky the punk, brother Pushkin... Neva magazine review of "Literary Matrix" collection (in Russian).
Levental's debut novel, Masha Regina, was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize and shortlisted by the Big Book award jury. According to The Guardian, it is "a postmodern bildungsroman... filled with allusions to Russian literature and German philosophy".
An English-language translation of Masha Regina was published in the United Kingdom by Oneworld Publications in 2016. In August 2016, the novel represented Russia at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Some critics consider Levental as one of the most prominent young Russian writersLev Danilkin's review of "Masha Regina" (in Russian) and even "the unique hope of Russian novella",Review of House of Fears collection by Literary Russia magazine. referring to his second book, a short-story collection entitled House of Fears.
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See also
List of people from Saint Petersburg List of Russian writers
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