Viktoriia Amelina was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher born in Lviv in 1986. She authored two novels and a children's book, establishing herself as a significant voice in contemporary Ukrainian literature. Amelina's literary work was recognized internationally. She won the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and was selected as a finalist for the European Union Prize for Literature, demonstrating the resonance of her writing across European literary communities. Beyond her fiction writing, Amelina was engaged in documenting and researching war crimes, work that reflected her commitment to bearing witness to historical and contemporary injustices. She died in Dnipro in 2023.