Writer killed aged 37 after Russian missile hit restaurant in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine
As the assault on Ukraine and its culture unfolded, Amelina set aside writing of fiction and trained as a war crimes investigator with the Ukrainian human rights group Truth Hounds. She travelled to areas liberated from Russian occupation and recorded the testimonies of witnesses and survivors.
Amelina’s missions to the east of Ukraine took their toll. She had recently, reluctantly, decided to take a break from her war crimes work and accepted a scholarship from Columbia University, New York, for a year’s writing residency in Paris. Having met a group of Colombian writers in Kyiv who were keen to visit war-affected areas, however, she volunteered to accompany them for one last trip. They were dining together when a missile hit their restaurant.
Amelina’s international reputation grew quickly, leading to translations into multiple languages, and, in 2021, she was awarded the Joseph Conrad literary award from the Polish Institute in Kyiv. She was born Victoria Shalamai in Lviv to a family who originally came from east-central Ukraine. Part of the city’s significant Russian-speaking minority, she attended a Russian-language school, where she was taught to identify with “great” Russian culture. Yet her actual encounters with Russia undermined this. At 15, she was invited to represent Lviv at an international Russian language competition in Moscow.
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