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?

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