The BBC Book of the Year - Essays 2020 shortlist includes a collection of reports on the life of Crimeans after the occupation of Crimea

Глянько Катерина
·
14:18, 16 November
The BBC Book of the Year - Essays 2020 shortlist includes a collection of reports on the life of Crimeans after the occupation of Crimea
Image source: YouTube/Ukraine Elections: Nataliya Gumenyuk, Hromadske TV

BBC News Ukraine has published the shortlist of the BBC 2020 Book of the Year Literary Award. Natalia Gumenyuk's book "Lost Island" - is a collection of reports on the life of the Crimean peninsula and its inhabitants in the last years of occupation until 2019 - was shortlisted in the BBC Book of the Year category.

The author of "Lost Island" Natalia Gumenyuk reported about it to Suspilne Crimea.

"Lost Island" is a collection of reports from occupied Crimea, from the beginning of 2014 to 2019, based in particular on my working trips to Crimea, during the so-called referendum. She also talks about how it was how people recovered after the annexation when the attention of Ukrainians was already focused on other things. "And then I continued to come to Crimea almost every year and tell the stories. Well, of course, the stories of political prisoners, they did not appear immediately, and the stories of people who lost their businesses. This is the story of Ukrainian citizens whose lives have changed dramatically", - Gumenyuk said.

The winners will be announced at an online ceremony on December 11, 2020.


Source: Old Lion Publishing House

What is known