Lev Danilkin

In 2021, Danilkin was honoured with award „Свети Стефан Штиљановић“ at serbian festival „Ћирилица“.

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. That year it won both the Big Book and Book of the Year awards.

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.

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

Lev Danilkin was born into a family of literary teachers. He studied in middle schools in Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, and in Moscow and graduated n 1998 from graduate school of philology of the 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.