The book Looking at Women, Looking at War by Ukrainian writer Viktoria Amelina has won the prestigious George Orwell Prize in the Political Non-Fiction category. The prize organisers announced this on their official social media accounts.
The jury chairman, British diplomat Kim Darroch, called the book ‘an unforgettable picture of the human consequences of war.’ The book was published in 2025 by the British publishing house William Collins. The foreword to the book was written by the well-known Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
The book was the last work by Viktoria Amelina, who tragically died as a result of Russian rocket fire on Kramatorsk in June 2023. It combines diary entries, poetry, reports from war crime sites, and interviews with women who document the war. Among the protagonists are human rights activist Oleksandra Matviychuk, journalist Yevheniia Podobna, war crimes researcher Kazanova, and librarian Yulia Kakulia-Danyliuk, who collected evidence of Russian crimes during the occupation.
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