Writer and literary critic Dmitry Bavilsky died at the age of 57.

Writer, literary critic Dmitry Bavilsky died in Chelyabinsk at the age of 58. This was announced on February 17 by publicist and philologist Nikolai Podosokorsky.

"Dmitry Vladimirovich Bavilsky, a Russian writer, literary critic, literary and music critic, and journalist, died in Chelyabinsk at the age of 57. He died last night in the hospital," Podosokorsky wrote on his Telegram channel.

Bavilsky was deputy editor-in-chief of the Uralskaya Nov magazine, worked as a supervisor at the Chelyabinsk Drama Theater, edited departments in the publications "Vzglyad", "Private Correspondent", The Art Newspaper Russia.

He is the author of the novels "The Babylonian Library", "The Nightshade Family", "Potato Eaters", "Gagarin's Last Love", "The Red Dot" and other works. Winner of the Novy Mir Magazine Awards, the Andrei Bely Award, and the special prize of the Furious Vissarion Award.

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