Lev Danilkin
Lev Danilkin is the leading literary critic of his generation, credited with making criticism accessible and even glamorous, and is acknowledged, and feared, as the man who can make or break a book. His reviews in the popular cultural digest Afisha are noted for the breadth of their scope and the verve of their writing and are required reading for literate young Russians. In addition to his prodigious journalistic output, Danilkin, a passionate advocate of foreign literature, has translated Julian Barnes’s Letters from London and is the author of a pioneering literary biography of the writer and politician Andrei Prokhanov, Man with an Egg, as well as a biography of Yuri Gagarin.
