Ukrainian writer Viktoriia Amelina died in a hospital in Dnipro on July 1

On July 1, Ukrainian writer Viktoriia Amelina died in the Mechnykov Hospital in Dnipro. She was injured during a missile attack on Kramatorsk on June 27. 

PEN Ukraine reported this.

On June 27, Viktoriia Amelina accompanied a Colombian delegation of journalists and writers. While they were having dinner at the Ria Lounge restaurant in the city centre, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the building. The attack killed 13 people and injured about 60. 

Viktoriia Amelina is the author of the novel The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens, the children's book Someone, or Water Heart, and Dom's Dream Kingdom. She was a laureate of the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski International Prize and a member of PEN Ukraine.

Her novel Dom's Dream Kingdom was shortlisted for the LitAkcent of the Year and the UNESCO City of Literature Prize, as well as the European Union Prize for Literature.

Viktoriia Amelina founded the New York Literary Festival, which took place in the village of New York in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region.

In the summer of 2022, Amelina joined the human rights organisation Truth Hounds. She worked with the team to document war crimes in the de-occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular in Kapytolivka in the Izium district of the Kharkiv region.

It was in the Kharkiv region that Viktoriia Amelina found the diary of the Ukrainian children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was killed by the Russians during the occupation of Izium. Vakulenko's body was found in grave No. 319 in a mass grave in the Izium forest.

According to PEN Ukraine, her first English non-fiction book, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, about Ukrainian women who document war crimes and their lives during the war, will soon be published.