Anna Levina (Sverdlova) was born and educated in St. Petersburg in Russia. She came to the US in 1987 and has lived in New York since. Anna started writing in America and published...view moreAnna Levina (Sverdlova) was born and educated in St. Petersburg in Russia. She came to the US in 1987 and has lived in New York since. Anna started writing in America and published five books in Russian (Hello Goodbye , Marriage, Emigre Style, Ah Little Apple!…, The Union of Two Muses, Smiles and Mistakes), as well as many stories and novellas, published successfully in Russian émigré media.
Anna has hosted Russian TV and a radio show, named after her book Hello Goodbye, and has performed on variety shows. Recently, stories from Hello Goodbye have been adapted for a TV pilot for a drama series “Permanent Residence” to be shown on Russian TV (USA, RUSSIA, GERMANY, ISRAEL). The pilot was screened in Brooklyn and has become a major source of controversy in the community and the media. The controversy spilled out in American mainstream media, with a front-page article in the NY Times, International Herald Tribune, "Moscow Times" (Moscow, Russia) and USA Russian newspapers and magazines.view less