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“Looking at Women. Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary/ Gledanje žena. Gledanje rata: Dnevnik o ratu i pravdi” je knjiga Victorie Amelina koja se nalazi na popisu 40 najuzbudljivijih knjiga za čitanje 2025. godine. Predgovor je napisala Margaret Atwood.

Victoria Amelina, mlada ukrajinska spisateljica i majka, ubijena je u raketnom napadu ljeta 2023. godine. Radila je s inozemnim novinarima blizu linije fronta. Kada je započela potpuna invazija, odlučila je postati ratna reporterka kako bi pomogla svojoj zemlji pobijediti u ovom neprovokativnom okrutnom ratu protiv Rusije.

Nažalost, ona nije bila prva niti posljednja ukrajinska umjetnica ubijena od strane agresivne susjedne zemlje. Victoria je pronašla, uredila i objavila knjigu svog kolege, pjesnika i autora knjiga za djecu, Volodymyra Vakulenka. Ubio ga je okupator, ali je uspio sakriti svoj dnevnik u vrtu prije otmice.

Njezin je dnevnik zapisa razgovora sa ženama u ratu. Njegov je dnevnik pisca pod okupacijom. Obojica nisu imali priliku dovršiti, urediti i objaviti svoje knjige. Najmanje što se može učiniti je pročitati ih…

“Ova knjiga uvijek bi bila važan dokaz da ukrajinski narod trpi kriminalni napad. Napisana od strane pjesnikinje, to je također književno djelo, objavljeno nakon što je autorica izgubila život obavljajući svoj istraživački rad. To je ikona heroizma mlade žene” Philippa Gregory

“[Amelina] piše žurno, hitno, izbliza i osobno, detaljno i senzualno. Ona slijedi u časne stope ranijih ženskih ratnih reporterki poput Marte Gellhorn… Umjetnici poput Amelina pomažu nam vidjeti, ali i osjećati. Služe nam kao oči. Amelina je svojom književnom vještinom mnogo služila sebi, a sada služi i nama.” Margaret Atwood

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Looking at Women. Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary is a book by Victoria Amelina on the list of the 40 most exciting books to read in 2025. The foreword was written by Margaret Atwood.

Victoria Amelina, a young Ukrainian writer and a mother, was killed in a missile attack in the summer of 2023. She was working with foreign journalists near the front line. When the full-scale invasion started, she decided to become a war reporter to help her country win this unprovoked cruel war against Russia.

Tragically, she was not the first and not the last Ukrainian artist killed by an aggressive neighboring country. Victoria found, edited and published the book of her colleague, a poet and an author of books for children, Volodymyr Vakulenko. He was killed by the occupants, but managed to hide his diary in his garden before the kidnapping.

Hers is a diary of talks with women in war. His is a diary of a writer in occupation. Both did not have the opportunity to finish, edit, and publish their books. The very least that can be done is to read them…

‘This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism’

Philippa Gregory

‘[Amelina’s] writing is hasty, urgent, upclose and personal, detailed, and sensual. She is following into the honourable footsteps of the earlier women war reporters such as Martha Gellhorn… Artists like Amelina help us to see, but also to feel. They serve as our eyes. Amelina’s talent as a novelist was of great service to her, and now it is of great service to us’

Margaret Atwood