Jon Lee Anderson remembers the Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, whose “legacy, and her words, will endure, infusing a contemporary, combustive element to the Ukrainians’ growing sense of identity and nationhood.”
Victoria Amelina now joins the ranks of those whose lives have been cut short by war, their truncated careers the source of what-if musings forever afterward.On the evening of June 27th, in eastern Ukraine, four friends of mine stopped for dinner at the Ria Lounge, a restaurant attached to a shopping center in the city of Kramatorsk, in the embattled. They had spent the previous two days travelling around the area, speaking to the locals and getting a firsthand look at the war’s destruction.
In the latest missile strike, three of my friends, all of them Colombians, escaped without major injuries. Héctor Abad, a writer from Medellín, was unhurt, as was Catalina Gómez Ángel, a longtime war correspondent who now spends much of her time in Ukraine. Sergio Jaramillo, a former senior government official and a lead negotiator during the peace talks with theguerrillas, had a few cuts and bruises.
She had already made an extraordinary discovery. Last September, Victoria took a trip to the city of Izyum, in northeastern Ukraine, following the Russian retreat from the area. There, she looked into the disappearance of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian poet and children’s-book author whom she knew. He had not been seen since Russian soldiers detained him in Kapytolivka, his home village, on Izyum’s outskirts, in March of 2022, and he was presumed dead, but little else was known.
We met again this year, in January, at a literary event, the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia.
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