Vadim Levental

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

He is an editor at Limbus Press publishing house and executive secretary of the National Bestseller literary award.^{[citation needed]}

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Vadim Levental was born in Saint Petersburg.^[1]

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".^[2]

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".^[3]

An English-language translation of Masha Regina was published in the United Kingdom by Oneworld Publications in 2016.^[4] 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^[5] and even "the unique hope of Russian novella",^[6] referring to his second book, a short-story collection entitled House of Fears.

"No matter who authored the Book of Genesis, he was just as wrong as the author of Capital: labor’s not a curse and not a joy, but a gift to the proletariat exiled from a futile paradise (because in the final reckoning, any tools of labor belong to God) and labor’s the only option for escaping existential horror". Vadim Levental, "Masha Regina", translated by Lisa Hayden, OneWorld Publications, UK, 2016.

• List of people from Saint Petersburg
• List of Russian writers