Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina never got to finish her story. We must tell it for her
“I really wanted to be the founder of a literature festival in New York”, Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian writer and activist, once told a roomful of Londoners.
In 2021, she did precisely that. The festival wasn’t in New York, US, but in a village with the same name in the Donetsk region, a place where her husband had spent his childhood. Sharp and witty, she syncopated her war stories with dry humour.
Her life of late was dedicated to documenting Russian war crimes. It is her death that documents the latest crime.
On June 27, Victoria was in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, in a pizzeria with a group of fellow writers, when a Russian missile struck the restaurant, which was full of civilians.… Seguir leyendo »