Lev Danilkin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Danilkin.

Lev Danilkin
Native name	Лев Данилкин
Born	(1974-12-01) 1 December 1974 (age 50) Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Occupation	Writer, translator, journalist, literary critic
Language	Russian
Citizenship	Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State University

Lev Aleksandrovich Danilkin (Russian: Лев Александрович Данилкин, IPA: [ˈlʲef ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ dɐˈnʲilkʲɪn]; born 1 December 1974) is a Russian writer and literary critic. He won the Big Book literary prize in 2017.

Education

Lev Danilkin was born into a family of literary teachers. He studied in middle schools in Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, and in Moscow, and graduated in 1998 from the graduate school of philology of the Moscow State University.^[1][2]

Career

In 1999–2000, Danilkin worked as the chief editor of the Russian edition of Playboy magazine.^[3] For 15 years he led the column "Books with Lev Danilkin" in Afisha magazine.^[4]

By the time he departed from Afisha in 2014, Danilkin had already written several biographies, including Man With an Egg: The Life and Views of Alexander Prokhanov about controversial writer Alexander Prokhanov, a book that was a finalist for the 2008 National Bestseller and Big Book awards. He also wrote a life of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin for the ZhZL (Russian: ЖЗЛ — Жизнь Замечательных Людей) series.^[5][6]

Danilkin's greatest subject is Lenin, and his 2017 book Lenin. Pantocrator of Dust Motes became one of the central literary events surrounding the centenary of the October Revolution in Russia.^[7] That year it won both the Big Book and Book of the Year awards.^[8][9]

By peers and colleagues, Danilkin is praised as 'the leading critic in Russia'.^[10][11] Some consider him more talented than the people he writes about.^[12]

In 2021, Danilkin was honoured with the award Свети Стефан Штиљановић at the Serbian festival Ћирилица.^[13]

References

1. Кириенков, Игорь (3 January 2019). "Писатель Лев Данилкин — о лучших русских книгах XXI века, встрече с Пелевиным и гениальности Лимонова" (in Russian). Esquire. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
2. Бойко, Михаил (24 April 2008). "Вивисектор русской хтони" (in Russian). Независимая газета. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
3. Zhuravleva, O. (28 February 2017). ""Личный подход": Лев Данилкин" ['Personal Approach': Leo Danilkin] (in Russian). Moscow 24 TV Channel. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
4. "Results" (in Russian). Big Book Award. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
5. "Lev Danilkin". Read Russia. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
6. "Yuri Gagarin: A symbol of Russian success". Deccan Herald. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
7. "Lev Danilkin presents: Lenin: The Pantocrator of Sun Dust". New Holland. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
8. Скорондаева, Анастасия (12 December 2017). "Лев Данилкин стал лауреатом премии "Большая книга"" (in Russian). Российская Газета. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
9. "Лев Данилкин получил премию «Книга года»". Горький (in Russian). 6 September 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
10. Vladimirsky, V. (21 September 2016). "Человек, который читал все" (in Russian). Vedomosti Sankt-Petersburg. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
11. Walsh, M. (9 April 2011). "Get ready for War and Peace in space". The Times UK. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
12. Shavlovsky, K. (17 November 2010). "Ложь и видео" [Lies and Videos] (in Russian). Seans. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
13. Mechanin, R. (8 October 2021). "ЛАВ ДАНИЛКИН – Друштво без државе није утопија" (in Serbian). Pechat. Retrieved 1 December 2022.

External links

• Lev Danilkin's articles on Afisha magazine site