Volodymyr Rafeenko

Volodymyr Rafeenko was born in Donetsk in 1969, and lived there, as a writer and professor of Russian philology, until 2014, when Russia invaded the Donbas. He escaped to a town near Kyiv, and has since written a novel in Russian about the war, The Length of Days (translated by Sibelan Forrester) and a novel in Ukrainian, Mondegreen (translated by Mark Andryczyk) about language, displacement, and being a refugee in one’s own country.