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Songs about Death and Love: A Ukrainian Writer on Language and War
Volodymyr Rafeyenko is a Ukrainian writer and literary critic. He hails from eastern Ukraine, being born in 1969 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which has been under Russian occupation since 2014. Rafeyenko has written novels, poems and essays. Living in Donetsk he wrote exclusively in Russian until 2014. He left Donetsk for Kyiv when Russia first invaded his city in 2014. During his Kyiv period Rafeyenko wrote in Russian and Ukrainian. He took three years to seriously study and learn Ukrainian. This personal language journey resulted in his masterful novel Mondegreen, written exclusively in Ukrainian. As of February 24, 2022, Volodymyr Rafeyenko writes only in Ukrainian.
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