Victoria Amelina
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Gender | Female |
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Death | Died last year |
Date of birth | January 1,1986 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Lviv |
Ukraine | |
Died | Mechnikov Hospital |
Dnipro | |
Ukraine | |
Date of died | July 1,2023 |
Books | Дім для дома: роман |
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ID | 3745824 |
Victoria Amelina Life story
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
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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