Victoria Amelina

Victoria Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Амеліна; born 1 January 1986) is a Ukrainian novelist. She is the author of two novels and a children’s book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award[1] and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.[2]

Victoria Amelina
Born (1986-01-01) 1 January 1986
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Occupationnovelist, essayist
NationalityUkrainian
GenreUkrainian literature
Literary movementmember of PEN International
Notable worksFall Syndrome (2014), Dom's Dream Kingdom (2017)
Notable awardsJoseph Conrad Literary award, European Union Prize for Literature short-list
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Biography

Victoria Amelina was born in 1986 in Lviv. At the age of fourteen she immigrated with her family to Canada, but later she returned to Ukraine. After completing her degree in computer sciences, she spent, in her own words, a period of “alien thirteen years” building a career in international hi-tech business. Since 2015, when her first book Синдром листопаду, або Homo Compatiens (The Fall Syndrome: about Homo Compatiens) was published, she has dedicated her time only to writing. Her debut novel deals with the events at Maidan in 2014, and the foreword was written by Jurij Izdryk. The novel has received several literary awards, and was welcomed by critics and scholars both from Ukraine and Europe.[3][4]

In 2016, Amelina published a book for children called Хтось, або водяне серце (Someone, or Water Heart). In 2017, Amelina published a novel Дім для Дома (Dom's Dream Kingdom) about a family of a Soviet colonel who in the 90s lived in the apartment of the famous Polish author of Jewish origin Stanisław Lem.[5][6][7]

The novel Дім для Дома (Dom's Dream Kingdom) was short-listed for a prestigious literary award LitAkcent in 2017[8] and European Union Prize for Literature in 2019.[9]

Amelina is 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 political prisoner in Russia Oleg Sentsov.[10]

Texts by Amelina have been translated into the Czech, Dutch, Polish, German and English languages.

In 2022, Victoria Amelina also started writing poetry.

As of 2022, Victoria Amelina lives in Kyiv and works as a war crimes researcher.[11][12]

In September 2022, doing war crimes research in the Izium region, Victoria Amelina uncovered the war diary of her fellow Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who had been killed by the occupying forces.

References
  1. "The Conrad Literary Award granted by the Polish Institute in Kyiv". 17 December 2021.
  2. "Eurozine".
  3. "Eastern partnership literary review 2015/ 2". Issuu.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. "Empathy – the only thing that will save us : anthropology of Homo Compatiens in the novel of Victoria Amelina". Aesthetic-potential.com. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  5. "Amelina Victoria". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. Szablatura, Martin. "Victoria Amelina: Pouze literatura | MAČ2017". brno.mac365.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. "Wrocław in the City of Lem. The beginning of an international seminar". Wroclaw2016.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  8. Szablatura, Martin. "Victoria Amelina: Pouze literatura | MAČ2017". brno.mac365.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  9. "EUPL 2019 shortlisted candidates — European Union Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  10. ""The stories win people's minds, not bullets": Victoria Amelina's speech about the trial of Sentsov at the 84th PEN Congress in Pune". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  11. "An unshakable resolve persists in Ukraine, says Kyiv writer Victoria Amelina as she shares horrific war truths". independent. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  12. Giovanni, Janine di. "The Defiance of Celebrating Literature in the Midst of War". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
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