in a missile strike a few days ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/world/europe/ukraine-writer-kramatorsk-victoria-amelina.html
"Victoria Amelina, one of Ukraine’s best-known young writers, has died from injuries sustained in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in eastern Ukraine. She was 37.
Her death brought to 13 the number of civilians killed in the attack on the Ria Lounge restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk on June 27. Ms. Amelina was dining with a Colombian delegation when the missile ripped into the restaurant. She was treated for severe injuries and died on Saturday.
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The news jolted Ukraine’s writing and journalism community — which has lost dozens of its own since Russia’s full-scale invasion began last year. Days before the attack, Ms. Amelina had attended the Kyiv Book Arsenal, a large literary festival in Ukraine’s capital.
“So many books unwritten, stories untold, days unlived,” Olga Tokariuk, a Ukrainian journalist, posted on Twitter in tribute.
Born in Lviv, Ms. Amelina was widely known in Ukraine for her novels, children’s books, poems and essays. After publishing her first book in 2014, she left a job in information technology the following year to fully devote herself to writing.
She received awards and acclaim for her work. In 2021, she won the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize, given to a Ukrainian writer under 40, and started a small literature festival in the Donetsk region.
The following year Ms. Amelina joined a human-rights organization, Truth Hounds, to investigate Russian war crimes in areas reclaimed by Ukrainian forces. She also was working on her first nonfiction book in English, about Ukrainian women documenting war crimes, PEN Ukraine said."....(more
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