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Ukrainian author killed by Russia awarded UK’s prestigious Orwell Prize in political writing

Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on June 25 the prestigious U.K. Orwell Prize for her book “Looking at Women, Looking at War.” Amelina was a finalist among notable nominees in the political non-fiction category, including American

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Héctor Abad, el escritor que irrita a Petro: "La obra inspirada por pura ideología suele ser pésima"

Uno de los invitados estelares del reciente Festival Penguin 2025, celebrado en el marco de la Semana del Libro, fue...

'Vivid and powerful': Laura Kyrke-Smith reviews 'Looking at Women, Looking at War'

This stunning collection of work by Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina – killed by a Russian missile strike in 2023 – ca...

Cancel culture vs. execute culture

Just after the Russian invasion, the novelist Victoria Amelina wrote an essay warning that Ukraine’s cultural community faced the same fate as the Executed Renaissance in the 1930s. On 1 July, Amelina herself died of injuries sustained in Russia's missile attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk.