Vadim Levental

He is an editor at Limbus Press publishing house and executive secretary of the National Bestseller literary award.

[citation needed] Vadim Levental was born in Saint Petersburg.

[1] 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".

[2] An English-language translation of Masha Regina was published in the United Kingdom by Oneworld Publications in 2016.