Documenting War: a Conversation with Ukrainian writer and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina

Please note this is an in-person event.

Join us for a conversation on war, truth and justice with one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary writers, Victoria Amelina. Over the last year, Victoria Amelina has been visiting areas of Ukraine liberated from Russian occupation and recording and researching war crimes. She is currently working on a book about her experiences. 

About the Speaker:

Victoria Amelina is a Ukrainian novelist, essayist, poet, and human rights activist. Victoria is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award (2021), and a finalist for the European Union Prize for Literature finalist (2019) and Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize (2018). She is the author of two novels about contemporary Ukraine, Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome, as well as two children’s books. Victoria’s prose and poems have been translated into Polish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Croatian and English. She writes both in Ukrainian and English. Her essays have appeared in Irish Times, Dublin Review of Books, and Eurozine. Since 2022, Victoria Amelina has worked as a war crimes researcher in Ukraine. She is currently working on a non-fiction book that describes her experiences and those of her colleagues, entitled War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War.Follow Victoria Amelina on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/vamelina