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OutreachLeft to right: Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian; Sasha Dovzhyk, Ukrainian writer, editor, and Director of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange; Victoria Belim, a Ukrainian memoirist and writer. Inset Photo: Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and Adrian Karatnycky of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Atlantic Council.
Russia’s criminal full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sparked an interest in the country as never before. Suddenly, Ukraine was everywhere, with media internationally regularly covering the war and political analysts offering insights. More recently, a plethora of books about Ukraine have appeared in the English-language world.
In this 3 October 2024 panel, moderated by Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian, authors discuss their books about Ukraine: Adrian Karatnycky of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Atlantic Council examines Ukraine’s history and its political leaders in Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia; Sasha Dovzhuk discusses Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina, who died of injuries following a Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk in June 2023, and her book Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary, to be published in February 2025; Victoria Belim, a Ukrainian memoirist talks about her notable 2023 book The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story; and Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, reflects on his books Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence, a revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance, as well as No Country for Love, a novel about a young Ukrainian girl arriving in Kharkiv in 1930, determined to contribute to the future of her country.
Sasha Dovzhyk, Adrian Karatnycky, Yaroslav Trofimov and Victoria Belim talk to Charlotte Higgins, 3 October 2024, Lviv Bookforum
Link below to the Hay Festival website for the English version of the video.
Event begins at 06:56
Left to right: Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian; Sasha Dovzhyk, Ukrainian writer, editor, and Director of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange; Victoria Belim, a Ukrainian memoirist and writer.
Left to right: Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian and Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal.
Left to right: Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian; Sasha Dovzhyk, Ukrainian writer, editor, and Director of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange; Victoria Belim, a Ukrainian memoirist and writer.
Left to right: Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian and Adrian Karatnycky of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Atlantic Council.
Left to right: Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and Adrian Karatnycky of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Atlantic Council. Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian is in the background.
Left to right: Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and Adrian Karatnycky of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and the Atlantic Council.
