“s story, saying Russia should not be allowed to get away with killing Ukrainian writers again, as they had in the Soviet purges of the 1930s.”
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Victoria Amelina
Viktoriia Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.
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culture · Ukrainian writer (1986–2023) · writer · novelist · essayist · poet · translator · lyricist · programmer · prose writer · children's writer · also Victoria Amelina, Viktoria Amelina, Victoria Yuriyivna Amelina, Viktoriia Yuriyivna Amelina, Amelina
Born 1 January 1986 · Died 1 July 2023 · Q21683191
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And it was a very emotional moment. This was a short diary that was hastily made, but it was the last work of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russians.
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2026· 3 entries
“And it was a very emotional moment. This was a short diary that was hastily made, but it was the last work of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russians.”
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“At this moment, I felt my head spinning, thinking about all the Ukrainian manuscripts that have been lost over the past centuries, and this might be another one.”
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Looking at Women Looking at War (2025).
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pravda.com.ua: War & Justice Diary by late Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina to go on sale in UK, US and other countries
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Book of war testimonies by deceased Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina to be published in US
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Awarded Prix Voltaire (2024).
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Awarded Norwegian Authors Union Freedom of Expression Prize (2024).
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2023· 13 entries
WWNO: Opinion: Remembering Ukrainian poet Victoria Amelina
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The Conversation: Victoria Amelina, killed by Russian rockets, joins a procession of Ukrainian writers whose lives were cut short by oppressors
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CNN: Opinion: Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina never got to finish her story. We must tell it for her
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Indiatimes: Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina passes away after being wounded in the Kramatorsk missile strike
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Hindustan Times: Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina dies after Kramatorsk strike: ‘Was dining with friends’
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Kyiv Post: Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina Killed by Russian Missile Attack
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Al Jazeera English: Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian novelist, killed in Russian attack
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Publishers Weekly: Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina Dies After Russian Attack
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Yahoo: Writer Victoria Amelina dies after sustaining injuries in Kramatorsk
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Died 2023-07-01.
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“It's me in this picture, I'm a Ukrainian writer.”
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A tribute to Amelina, Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened, was published by Arrowsmith Press
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Amelina was offered a UK publishing deal for the book
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Joseph Conrad Award (2021).
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Received the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize
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2018· 1 entry
Took part in 84th World PEN Congress in India as a delegate from Ukraine and gave a speech about Ukrainian filmmaker and a political prisoner in Russia Oleg Sentsov
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2017· 2 entries
Victoria Amelina published a novel, Дім для Дома (Dom's Dream Kingdom), about the family of a Soviet colonel who lived in Lviv in the 1990s in the former childhood apartment of the Polish Jewish author Stanisław Lem
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And for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019
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2016· 1 entry
Amelina published a book for children called Хтось, або Водяне серце (Somebody, or Water Heart)
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2015· 1 entry
Amelina focused on writing
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1986· 1 entry
Born 1986-01-01.
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