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Victoria Amelina

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Gender Female
DeathDied last year
Date of birth January 1,1986
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Lviv
Ukraine
DiedMechnikov Hospital
Dnipro
Ukraine
Date of died July 1,2023
BooksДім для дома: роман
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Viktoriya Yuryivna Amelina, later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.

Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike

Jul 2,2023 8:10 pm

By George WrightBBC News

The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in The Eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.

The War Crimes researcher becomes the 13th person to have died in The Attack .

The Writers ' association PEN Ukraine Said doctors " did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately The Wound was fatal".

Human Rights activists have called The Attack A War crime.

Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Amelina, 37, was dining with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers in The City 's popular Ria Lounge when the missile hit. Around 60 others were injured in The Attack .

She was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday, PEN Ukraine Said .

" It is with great pain that we inform you that The Heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July, " The Group Said in a statement.

" In the Last Days of Victoria's life, her family and friends were by her side. "

Amelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers who started documenting War Crimes after Russia's full-scale invasion Last Year . She also started working with children near The Frontline .

Last Year she unearthed The Diary of children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and killed by Russian troops in The City of Izyum soon after The Invasion .

Her first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking At War , is due to be published.

In an earlier statement confirming that Amelina had been injured in The Attack , PEN Ukraine and War Crimes watchdog Truth Hounds Said that members of both groups had travelled to the frontlines with Amelina.

" Now, Victoria has become a victim of A War crime herself, " they Said .

shows Amelina taking a photo of a bombed building in Ukraine.

" It's me in this picture, " The Post reads.

" I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's War Crimes and listen to The Sound of shelling, not poems. Why? "

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