The Ukrainian writer killed by the Russians posthumously received an award from the International Association of Publishers
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Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, killed by Russian occupiers in the Kharkiv region, posthumously received the Prix Voltaire Special Award 2023 from the International Publishers Association. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram Writer Viktoriya Amelina announced this on the award’s website and in social networks. “Volodymyr Vakulenko is a symbol of the terrible cultural destruction wrought by the Russian army in Ukraine. Let’s remember him and honor the stories and poems he left us before he was taken away prematurely,” said Kristen Einarson, head of the Committee for Freedom of the Press. Vakulenko became the laureate of the IPA Prix Voltaire Award 2023. And the main award this year went to the Iraqi publisher Mazen Latif Ali. Amelina received the award on behalf of the deceased Vakulenko. She announced that she would bring the award to the writer’s native village. “By the end of May, I promise to bring the award to the Kapitolivka. I think it is important that my relatives see it and that this award should be in the Volodya room,” she wrote. “At the presentation, she said that Volodya would probably like to dedicate this award to all the writers who were killed for choosing to be Ukrainians. And she read an excerpt from Volodya’s diary translated by dear Daisy Gibbons,” Amelina added. Volodymyr Vakulenko is a children’s writer, poet and laureate of numerous literary awards. Author of 13 books. At the end of March 2022, the Russian military occupied the village of Kapitolivka, Izyum District, Kharkiv Oblast, where Vakulenko lived. The Russians searched the writer’s home and arrested him twice, and after the second arrest he was not released. For a long time, he was considered missing, but in November of last year, an examination confirmed that one of the bodies found in a mass grave after the deoccupation of the region belonged to the writer. Read also: Golden dust of memory. Literary annals of the writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was killed by the Russians
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