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Victoria Amelina

Born

in Lviv, Ukraine

January 01, 1986

Died

July 01, 2023

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Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Юріївна Амеліна), later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist. 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.

Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina was born in Lviv on 1 January 1986. She emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of fourteen, then returned to Ukraine soon after. After completing a degree in computer science in Lviv, Amelina started her career in IT before becoming a full-time writer and poet in 2015.

From 2015, when her first book Синдром листопаду, або Homo Compatiens (The Fall Syndrome: about Homo Compatiens) was published, she dedicated her time solely to writing. Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Юріївна Амеліна), later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist. 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.

Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina was born in Lviv on 1 January 1986. She emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of fourteen, then returned to Ukraine soon after. After completing a degree in computer science in Lviv, Amelina started her career in IT before becoming a full-time writer and poet in 2015.

From 2015, when her first book Синдром листопаду, або Homo Compatiens (The Fall Syndrome: about Homo Compatiens) was published, she dedicated her time solely to writing. Her debut novel deals with the events at Maidan in 2014; the foreword was written by Yurii Izdryk. The novel has received several literary awards, and was welcomed by critics and scholars from Ukraine and wider Europe.

In 2016, Amelina published a book for children called Хтось, або водяне серце (Somebody, or Water Heart).

In 2017, she published a novel Дім для Дома (Dom's Dream Kingdom) about a family of a Soviet colonel who in the 1990s lived in the former childhood apartment in Lviv of the Polish Jewish author Stanisław Lem. The novel was short-listed for the LitAkcent literary award in 2017. and European Union Prize for Literature in 2019.

Amelina was a member of PEN International. In 2018, she took part in 84th World PEN Congress in India as a delegate from Ukraine and gave a speech on Ukrainian filmmaker and political prisoner in Russia Oleg Sentsov.

In 2022, she started writing poetry as well.[11] Her prose and poems have been translated into numerous other languages.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, she worked as a war crimes researcher. In September 2022, while doing research in the Izium region, she uncovered the war diary of fellow Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who had been killed by the occupying forces.

As of 2022, Amelina lived in Kyiv. On 27 June 2023, she was injured during the Russian attack on Kramatorsk while she was dining at RIA Pizza together with Héctor Abad, Sergio Jaramillo and Catalina Gómez. The restaurant was hit by an Iskander missile. Amelina died due to her injuries on 1 July at the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro at the age of 37. ...more

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	Дім для Дома by Victoria Amelina, Katarzyna Kotyńska (Translator), Вікторія Амеліна, Петро Сметана (Illustrator) 4.45 avg rating — 1,507 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina, Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by) 4.31 avg rating — 1,218 ratings — published 2025 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zmieniam się… Dziennik okupacyjny / Poezje by Volodymyr Vakulenko-K., Wołodymyr Wakułenko-K., Bohdan Zadura (Translator) 4.89 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Свідчення by Victoria Amelina, Вікторія Амеліна, Данило Мовчан (Illustrator) 4.93 avg rating — 241 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Синдром Листопаду - Homo Compatiens by Victoria Amelina, Вікторія Амеліна 4.38 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Хтось, або Водяне серце by Victoria Amelina, Вікторія Амеліна, Марія Фоя (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 78 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Collins Looking at Women, Looking at War. by Victoria Amelina, Unknown Author 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brick, A Literary Journal (Brick, #113) by Dionne Brand, David Chariandy (Editor), Laurie D. Graham (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blick auf Frauen den Krieg im Blick by Victoria Amelina, Steffen Beilich (Translator), Andreas Rostek (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apartment on Lepkyi Street 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The response to truth is often even more truth; that is why regimes fear even small bits of it.”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

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“It is striking how much we all laugh during this horrible war. We may not do it that much in front of foreign reporters, who mostly expect to see Ukrainian women's despair or heroism. The truth is, sometimes, tired of crying or of being unable to cry, we laugh like crazy as if proving that here we are, Ukrainians, still alive.”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

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“I guess when the world ends”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

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