Victoria Amelina

Victoria Amelina
Amelina in 2015
Amelina in 2015
Native name
Вікторія Амеліна
BornViktoriia Yuriivna Amelina
(1986-01-01)1 January 1986
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died1 July 2023(2023-07-01) (aged 37)
Dnipro, Ukraine
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
Literary movementMember of PEN International
Notable works
  • Fall Syndrome (2014)
  • Dom's Dream Kingdom (2017)
Notable awards

Viktoriia Yuriyivna Amelina (née Shalamay; Ukrainian: Вікторія Юріївна Амеліна; 1 January 1986 – 1 July 2023), later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was 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]

  1. ^ "The Conrad Literary Award granted by the Polish Institute in Kyiv". The Polish Book Institute. 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Eurozine". 31 March 2022.