Vadim Levental

Vadim Levental (born 25 October 1981) is a Russian editor and writer.

Early life

Vadim Levental was born in Saint Petersburg.

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".

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 writers and even "the unique hope of Russian novella", referring to his second book, a short-story collection entitled House of Fears.

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