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Victoria Amelina

ヴィクトーリヤ・アメリーナ

Viktorīa Amerīna

Aliases: Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina / Viktoriia Shalamay

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1986-01-01 (Lviv)
Died
2023-07-01 (Dnipro) age 37
Nationality
Ukraine
Languages
Ukrainian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Lviv → Canada (briefly) → Kyiv

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Essayist, War crimes researcher
Active Years
2014-2023
Affiliations
PEN International
Memberships
PEN International
Nominations
European Union Prize for Literature shortlist (2019)

Education

Lviv Polytechnic National University
Computer Science
Degree: コンピュータサイエンスの学位
Country: Ukraine

Awards

Order of Merit (Ukraine)
2024
Category: 3rd class
Organization: Office of the President of Ukraine
Result: 受賞(追贈)
Joseph Conrad Literary Award
2021
Organization: Polish Institute in Kyiv
Result: 受賞
European Union Prize for Literature
2019
Work: Dom's Dream Kingdom
Organization: European Union
Result: ショートリスト
Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2025
Work: Looking at Women Looking at War
Result: 受賞(追贈)

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens

2014 Novel

Deals with the events at Maidan in 2014.

EmpathyMaidan Revolution

Dom's Dream Kingdom

2017 Novel

About the family of a Soviet colonel in Lviv in the 1990s.

FamilyHistory

Looking at Women Looking at War

2025 Non-fiction

Diary of women pursuing justice in war.

WarJustice

Bibliography

  • The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens (2014)
  • The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens (2015)
  • Somebody, or Water Heart (2016)
  • Dom's Dream Kingdom (2017)
  • Stories of Eka the Excavator (2021)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Short sentencesPoetic in war
Recurring Motifs
WarEmpathyUkrainian history

Health

  • Missile strike injuries
    2023-06-27 〜 2023-07-01
    Fatal

Legacy

Ukrainian writer active during war, posthumous awards.

In Popular Culture

  • Promotion patron for College of Europe (2025/2026)

Quotes

  • That's what war leaves you. The sentences are as short as possible, the punctuation a redundant luxury, the plot unclear, but every word carries so much meaning.
    Source: Interview (2022)

Trivia

  • Emigrated to Canada at age 14 but returned soon.
  • Discovered Volodymyr Vakulenko's war diary.
  • Injured in Russian missile strike at RIA Pizza.