Volodymyr Rafeyenko
Volodymyr Rafeyenko is a Ukrainian writer, poet, translator and critic. He initially wrote entirely in Russian, but following the outbreak of Russian aggression in 2014 he switched to Ukrainian. Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love is his first novel in Ukrainian. He is the Ukrainian translator of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich’s War’s Unwomanly Face.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 160
Signs of an Approaching War
Volodymyr Rafeyenko
‘We were ourselves migrating birds; in a sense, refugees, displaced persons, without a home or a home town.’
Volodymyr Rafeyenko on the war on Ukraine, translated by Sasha Dugdale.