Anastasia Levkova

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Anastasia Levkova (1986) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, literary editor, and cultural manager. She is the author of the young adult novel High School Student. Freshman (2017), the book for children aged 5–7 Ashik Omer (2020), the non-fiction book for teenagers and adults Common Language: How Words Are Born and Live (2020), and the Crimean novel There is a Land Beyond Perekop (2023), which became a Ukrainian bestseller (eight editions have been published since 2023, with more than 80,000 copies sold).

She is a co-compiler of Free Voices of Crimea: Stories of Crimean Journalists Imprisoned by the Kremlin (2025). She is a co-founder of the literary project Qırım inciri / Crimean Fig and a co-editor of five eponymous anthologies. Since 2019, she has been the coordinator of PEN Ukraine's project Lace: Literary Readings in Towns of Ukraine. She is a co-writer of the documentary animated film What Is the Ukrainian Language?

Anastasia Levkova is a member member of PEN Ukraine and a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters.

Arrowsmith Press

There is a Land Beyond Perekop: Anastasia Levkova in Translation There is a Land Beyond Perekop: Anastasia Levkova in Translation

Written by Anastasia Levkova

London Ukrainian Review

Anastasia Levkova, There is Land beyond Perekop Anastasia Levkova, There is Land beyond Perekop

Translator: Marta Gosovska

Asymptote

From The Free Voices of Crimea From The Free Voices of Crimea

Written by Anastasia Levkova

Translator: Hanna Leliv

Chytomo

There is land beyond Perekop – a Crimean Bildungsroman There is land beyond Perekop – a Crimean Bildungsroman

By Ihor Kotyk

Many Ukrainian writers addressed the Crimean theme at different times, but it has been less present in novels, as has Ukrainian policy toward the peninsula, which resulted in its annexation. Anastasiia Levkova’s novel “There is Land Beyond Perekop” fills this thematic gap in Ukrainian literature — Crimea is not just a setting. It is, without exaggeration, a main character.