Culture'Hemingway Knows Nothing': Ukraine's writers are redefining literature of war

As war, loss and unimaginable suffering become part of everyday life, books can provide a form of lifeline. That is especially true of works by writers who have endured such experiences themselves and attempted to make sense of them. At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war, some Ukrainians wondered whether established war literature could explain what they were living through. Ukrainian writers are now challenging those assumptions and reshaping the literature of war through their own experiences.

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TThe Kyiv Independent★★☆☆☆2026-08-12 10:07Original