Victoria Donovan

Prof @StAModLangs/Ukraine, extractivist politics, colonial encounters/Rep'd by Sophie Scard @UnitedAgents/@ahrcpress new gen thinker/she-her-hers/welsh

[James Attlee @JamesAttlee]

Looking forward next Thursday to an in-conversation with author Victoria Donovan about her extraordinary book Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East. The event is at Daunt’s Bookshop in Oxford. Would strongly advise booking early!

https://t.co/uZjpiNlyC4

[United Agents Books @UA_Books]

🖋️ Life in Spite of Everything by @vsdonovan 📖Out now with @Dauntbooks

🌼 GOOD THINGS by @katemacdougall1 📚Now in paperback via @zaffrebooks | @bonnierbooks_uk

🍌 Are You a Banana?/ 🐸 Are You a Frog? 🎨Illustrated by @robertstarling_art 📘Out with @patacakebooks

[Heron Books @heron_books]

Read it here: https://t.co/dpWCDoIj13
Featured this week:
Graham Swift’s Twelve Post-War Tales
The Deserters by Mathias Enard
Allies At War by Tim Bouverie
Life in Spite of Everything by Victoria Donovan

[Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan]

Beautiful review of Life in Spite of Everything by Andrey Kurkov in yesterday's Observer ❤️❤️❤️

https://t.co/XB53MHjgkH

[Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan]

Thank you so much, @NYurtsaba!

[Nikola Yurtsaba #standwithukraine 🇺🇦 @NYurtsaba]

Доброй рано, dear friends. Be sure to add @vsdonovan's LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING to your Ukraine-focused reading lists! Let's keep standing with Ukraine & uplifting Ukrainian voices.

https://t.co/JZv45t290K

[Dr. Viktoriia_Grivina @brams884]

Great honour to have moderated the presentation of @vsdonovan new book Life in Spite of Everything at @ToppingsStAs yesterday. Donetsk and Luhansk regions are about people, their art and activism, of which Victoria spoke. And thanks to Dr Ralitza Nikolaeva for her lovely post.

[Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan]

I spoke to @FrancisDearnley @telegraph podcast Ukraine: The Latest about the myth of 'Donbas' and how Russia has weaponised that myth across time. Listen again on the pod webpage or any preferred streaming platform: https://t.co/lO3yG1btEV

[Jimena Gorraez @J_Gorraez]

Delighted to share the dates and bookshops hosting events on LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST by Victoria Donovan.
These events offer a powerful and timely reflection on Ukraine’s past and present, do join if you can!

[Olesya Khromeychuk @OKhromeychuk]

Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. @BlackerUilleam and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and @vsdonovan. 🎧 Link below.

[Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 @BlackerUilleam]

Eastern Ukraine is not real estate to be bought and sold. It's a region of real people with rich history and culture. Learn more in episode 3 of the Ukraine Shelf, where we speak to Donetsk novelist Olena Stiazhkina and UK historian Victoria Donovan. Link in comment👇.

[Nikola Yurtsaba #standwithukraine 🇺🇦 @NYurtsaba]

Добра ніч, dear friends. LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST by Victoria Donovan is forthcoming from @Dauntbooks in April 2025: https://t.co/JZv45t290K. Keep reading about Ukraine!

[Modern Languages at St Andrews @StAModLangs]

Don't miss this wonderful event. Tue 29 April 7:30pm Prof Victoria Donovan will give a book talk at @ToppingsStA on her book 'Life in Spite of Everything'. You can book tickets with a copy of the book included in the price here: https://t.co/559Ptd3r9G

[Modern Languages at St Andrews @StAModLangs]

Congratulations to Prof Victoria Donovan who has been selected as a 2025 Visiting Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki where she will work on a short publication emerging from digital archiving work she has been conducting with partners in Ukraine.

[Prof Bob Davis @Rokewood]

A rich cross-disciplinary discussion of a signature experience of our time: uncertainty. @annemcelvoy shepherds the experts (& practices a bit of conflict resolution). @BBCFreeThinking with @M_Heffernan @LiamHalligan Chris Lintott @fromTGA @vsdonovan
https://t.co/g92XKSRmeK

[Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews @ToppingsStAs]

To celebrate the longer days, it was only fair to introduce yet more fantastic events for the Spring Literary Festival...

📍 Rahul Rao @thariel on 'The Psychic Lives of Statues'
📅 Monday 24th March, 7:30pm

📍 Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan on 'Life in Spite of Everything'
...

[Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan]

Spoke about extractivism, predatory foreign capitalists, & the history of Donbas on @BBCRadio4 . Such a pleasure to be a guest alongside @fromTGA who is always on point on Ukraine and had some kind words to say about my book Life in Spite of Everything: https://t.co/tZhVcXeZRS

[UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies @UCLSSEES]

Please join us for a conversation with @vsdonovan
on her latest book 'Life in Spite of Everything. Tales from the Ukrainian East', which explores the lived experiences of communities in Ukraine’s #Donbas region.

🗓️ 14 March at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ https://t.co/a7MVm4CAS2

[Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 @BlackerUilleam]

Next Friday at @UCLSSEES we'll be discussing Victoria @vsdonovan's new book about eastern Ukraine. We will be joined by SSEES's own Volodymyr Kulikov, a brilliant historian of the same region. All welcome, free registration below! https://t.co/TeBboNSv5I

[Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan]

Aww, thank you, @EiraRichards!

[Victoria Donovan @vsdonovan]

Thanks, @RwandanSOChange! You can find more of Bohdan's stunning work on our Mariupol Memory Park site here: https://t.co/ql8P0MUsUk

[Nicki Hitchcott @RwandanSOChange]

@DauntBooksPub @vsdonovan Looking forward to seeing this out. The cover is stunning @vsdonovan