Writing About Women, Writing About War

In grand war stories, the perspectives of women at home, abroad and on the frontlines are often elided.

In this panel discussion, writers and journalists reflect on the final work of writer Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War, whose writing life was tragically cut short with her death by a Russian missile strike in Ukraine in 2023. Journalist Barbara Demick (Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption and Separated Twins), Finnish Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen (Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women) and Booker Prize–longlisted author Maria Reva (Endling) discuss the act of writing about women and war in the past and present.

Join Barbara, Sofi and Maria with host Maria Tumarkin.