Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Юріївна Амеліна), later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist. She was the author of two novels and a children’s book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.
Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina was born in Lviv on 1 January 1986. She emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of fourteen, then returned to Ukraine soon after. After completing a degree in computer science in Lviv, Amelina started her career in IT before becoming a full-time writer and poet in 2015.
Books in order of publication (In English and Ukrainian) :
Синдром Листопаду – Homo Compatiens – 2014
Хтось, або Водяне серце
Дім для Дома – 2017
Свідчення – 2024
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary – 2025
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