Victoria Amelina

Victoria Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Амеліна) (born 1986) is a Ukrainian novelist. She is the author of two successful novels and a children´s book.

Victoria Amelina
Born (1986-01-01) 1 January 1986
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Occupationnovelist, essayist
NationalityUkrainian
GenreUkrainian literature
Literary movementmember of PEN International
Notable worksFall Syndrome (2014), Dom's Dream Kingdom (2017)
Notable awardsEuropean Union Prize for Literature short-list
Website
vamelina.com

Biography

Victoria Amelina was born in 1986 in Lviv, at fourteen she emigrated with her family to Canada, but later she has returned to Ukraine. After finishing her degree in computer sciences, she spent, in her own words, “alien thirteen years” building a career in international hi-tech business. Since 2015, when her first book Синдром листопаду, або Homo Compatiens (The Fall Syndrom: about Homo Compatiens) was published, she dedicates her time only to writing. Her debut novel deals with the events at Maidan in 2014, and the foreword was written by a famous writer Jurij Izdryk. The novel has received several literary awards, was welcomed by critics and scholars both from Ukraine and Europe.[1][2]

In 2016, Amelina published a book for children called Хтось, або водяне серце (Someone, or Water Heart).

In 2017, Victoria Amelina published a novel Дім для Дома (Dom's Dream Kingdom) about a family of a Soviet colonel who in the 90s lived in the apartment of the famous Polish author of Jewish origin Stanisław Lem.[3][4][5][6]

The novel Дім для Дома (Dom's Dream Kingdom) was short-listed for a prestigious literary award LitAkcent in 2017[7] and European Union Prize for Literature in 2019.[8]

Amelina is a member of PEN International. In 2018, she took part in 84th World PEN Congress in India as a delegate from Ukraine and gave a speech on Ukrainian political prisoner in Russia Oleg Sentsov.[9]

Texts by Amelina have been translated into Czech, Dutch, Polish, German and English languages.

References
  1. "Eastern partnership literary review 2015/ 2". Issuu.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. "Empathy – the only thing that will save us : anthropology of Homo Compatiens in the novel of Victoria Amelina". Aesthetic-potential.com. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  3. "Amelina Victoria". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  4. Szablatura, Martin. "Victoria Amelina: Pouze literatura | MAČ2017". brno.mac365.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  5. "Wrocław in the City of Lem. The beginning of an international seminar". Wroclaw2016.pl. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  6. https://www.huri.harvard.edu/projects/ukraine-crisis-archive/119-online-forms/272-fellows-associates-alumni-update.html
  7. Szablatura, Martin. "Victoria Amelina: Pouze literatura | MAČ2017". brno.mac365.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  8. "EUPL 2019 shortlisted candidates — European Union Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  9. ""The stories win people's minds, not bullets": Victoria Amelina's speech about the trial of Sentsov at the 84th PEN Congress in Pune". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
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