Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina

Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina

In June 2023, the Ukrainian novelist and poet Victoria Amelina was about to leave the country and take up a residency in Paris, where she could be reunited with her young son and turn her wartime experiences into a book. Before her departure she made a last trip east, accompanying a delegation of Colombian writers to the frontline town of Kramatorsk. They were having supper in a pizzeria when a Russian missile struck. The Colombians were unharme…