(1986–2023) Ukrainian novelist, essayist and activist. On 1 July 2023, Amelina died of injuries sustained in Russia’s missile attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk on 27 June 2023.
Winner of the Joseph Conrad literature prize 2021 and finalist of European Union Prize for Literature 2019. She was a founder of the New York Literary Festival that takes place in a small town called New York near the frontline in the east of Ukraine.
Victoria Amelina’s works are translated into several languages, including English, Polish, Czech and Dutch. She is most known for her two novels, Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens and Dom’s Dream Kingdom.
Just after the Russian invasion, the novelist Victoria Amelina wrote an essay warning that Ukraine’s cultural community faced the same fate as the Executed Renaissance in the 1930s. On 1 July, Amelina herself died of injuries sustained in Russia’s missile attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk.
