Women and War (English Edition): Letters from Ukraine to the Free World - Paperback

by Aurélie Bros (Editor), Aurélie Bros (Translator)

How would you communicate the realities of living in a warzone to someone who has never had this experience? Thirty Ukrainian women, ages 10 to 72, answered this question in letters that emanate power, depth, pain, strength, and resilience. These fragments of life reveal the horrors of conflict but also the humanity of survivors.

Author Biography

Aurélie Bros (Author of the introduction, Editor, Translator)

A geopolitician who wrote her doctoral thesis on Gazprom's export strategy to Europe via Ukraine. She has taught at several universities, including Harvard University, where she led a research program on the impact of the global energy transition on traditional oil and gas producers, such as Russia and Iran. She has given numerous conferences, including at MIT and the Université du Québec. In March 2022, she began coordinating an aid project launched by Handelsblatt (Germany's largest financial newspaper) to support Ukrainian journalists. Since 2023 she has been writing books and screenplays.

Emily Channell-Justice

Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. She is an anthropologist who has been studying Ukrainian and conducting research in Ukraine since 2012. She has studied political activism and social movements among students and feminists during the Euromaidan mobilisation of 2013-2014. She is the author of the monograph Without a State: Self-Organisation and Political Activism in Ukraine and editor of the collection Decolonising Queer Experience: LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Oleksandra Matviichuck

Ukrainian lawyer, human rights activist, Chair of the Board of the Centre for Civil Liberties and member of the Board of the International Renaissance Foundation. She has been fighting for human rights since her childhood. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.

Photographers:

Daria Biliak, a photographer and a filmmaker, originally from Kyiv. After graduating from the National University of Culture and Arts in Kyiv with a degree in film and television directing, she moved to Berlin to study at the Neue Schule für Fotografie. Since then, she has successfully participated in national and international projects.

Kristina Parioti, a photographer and philologist, originally from Mariupol. She lives in Germany since April 2022, where she photographs movie stars or models during the Fashion Week. She is politically active to raise awareness among the German population of the fate of her country.

Anastasia Potapova, a photographer, originally from Odesa, where she studied photography. Since March 2022, she has been living in Germany where she continues her career.