Victoria Amelin was awarded the Orvell Prize for the book, looking at women looking at the war. The writer died on July 1, 2023 as a result of a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk.
Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina posthumously awarded the George Orwell Prize in category Not political non-fiction For his book Staring at women looking at the war. On Wednesday, June 25, it was reported on the social network of the X prize.
The jury leader Kim Darrock described the book as “a memorable picture of the people of war.”
The book, published in 2025 by William Collins, contains Margaret Etwood’s preface. This is an incomplete work of the set, which combines diary entries, interviews, reports from areas of war crimes and poetry.
The book’s main attention is concentrated not only in the war, but also in women documents or concerns. Among the heroes were a human rights activist and praise of the world’s Nobel Prize, fighting for Russia’s international responsibility Alexandra Matveychuk; The lawyer who became military, Eugene; The library that conducts a diary during work, documenting Russian terrorist facts, Julia Kakulya Danilyuk and so on.
Earlier it was reported that the Pulitzer Prize Committee mentioned journalists for materials in conflicts, a crisis in the USA and the struggle for freedom of speech.
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