Victoria Amelina

Victoria 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.

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.

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

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

Victoria Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Амеліна ) (born 1986) is a Ukrainian novelist.

She 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.