Victoria Amelina, who tragically lost her life during a Russian shelling in Kramatorsk in 2023, has been awarded the British George Orwell Prize posthumously. She received this honor for her book "Looking at Women, Looking at War".

The announcement was made on the official page of the prize on social media.

Kim Darrock, the chair of the jury, remarked that it is an "unforgettable depiction of the human consequences of war".

Amelina was awarded in the "Political Non-fiction" category. Her book, published in February 2025 in the UK, combines diary entries, interviews, reports from war crime sites, and poetry.

The author introduced her work at the 29th BookForum in Lviv, where she shared her intent to write about Ukrainian women striving for justice.

Sadly, Victoria was unable to complete her book as she died from injuries sustained in Kramatorsk in 2023.

The book features heroines such as a Truth Hounds documentarian, reporters, human rights activists, and advocates fighting for women's rights and justice.

Victoria Amelina's book was published by William Collins, with a foreword written by renowned author Margaret Atwood.

The Orwell Prize is awarded annually for the best works in political literature across four categories: fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and exposure of social evils in the UK.

Victoria Amelina was a Ukrainian writer and activist who also received the Joseph Conrad-Kożeniowski Literary Prize.

After the onset of the full-scale invasion, she joined the Truth Hounds organization to document human rights violations.

Unfortunately, Victoria sustained severe injuries from a missile strike on a café in Kramatorsk on June 27, 2023, while accompanying a delegation of writers and journalists.

Despite the efforts of doctors, Victoria passed away on July 1, 2023.