Victoria AmelinaVictoria Amelina was killed by a Russian missile in July, 2023. She was an award-winning Ukrainian novelist, essayist, poet, and human rights activist whose prose and poems have been translated into many languages. In 2019/2020 she lived and taveled extensively in the US. She wrote both in Ukrainian and English, and her essays have appeared in Irish Times, Dublin Review of Books, and Eurozine. Her 2025 book, Looking at Women, Looking at War, with a Foreword by Margaret Atwood, was a USA Today bestseller and won The Orwell Prize for Political Writing; it is on the Long-list for the 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. Read More Read Less