War & Justice Diary by late Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina to go on sale in UK, US and other countries

A book by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, whose life was taken by a Russian attack, will go on sale abroad at the end of winter. Amelina’s work tells the story of women through the lens of war.

Source: Tetyana Teren, former head of PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists) Ukraine

Details: The official release date of the book, War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is 13 February.

Victoria Amelina’s book will be available for purchase from:

• 18 February – in bookstores in the US (published by St Martin’s Press);
• 19 February – in France (Flammarion);
• 24 February – in Sweden (Ersatz Publishing);
• 18 March – in Italy (Guanda);
• 21 March – in Germany (Edition Fototapeta).

The book will be published in English.

At the 29th Book Forum in Lviv, Victoria Amelina shared that she was writing a book in English about Ukrainian women who "are striving for justice in various ways".
She revealed that the heroines of the book include lawyers, journalists, and the author herself, as well as "Ukrainian cities, towns and villages".

Quote from Tetyana Teren: "If it is important for you at this time to explain to your foreign friends, colleagues and partners what it means to live through more than ten years of war, what Ukraine is striving for and fighting for – please give them this book by our Vika [Victoria – ed.], whom Russia took from us and our culture."

More details: Victoria Amelina was a Ukrainian writer and public activist, winner of the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Award and a nominee for the Angelus Central European Literary Prize.

After the start of the full-scale war, Victoria paused her fiction writing and joined Truth Hounds, an organisation which documents human rights violations in Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

She also participated in humanitarian trips by PEN Ukraine writers to the de-occupied territories.

Victoria Amelina was injured in a Russian missile strike on a café in the city of Kramatorsk on 27 June 2023. At the time, she was accompanying a delegation of writers and journalists from Colombia on a trip to eastern Ukraine.

Despite the doctors’ efforts, Victoria passed away on 1 July 2023.

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