Yeva Skalietska – författare

***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****** Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards***Featured on This Morning, Steph's Packed Lunch, Radio 4: Today and Channel 4 News_______________Everyone knows the word 'war'. But very few understand what it truly means. When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is.This is the gripping and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva's life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven it should have been. It was while she was forced to seek shelter in a damp, cramped basement that Yeva decided to write down her story. And it is a story the world needs to hear.Yeva captured the nation's heart when she was featured on Channel 4 News with her granny as they fled Ukraine for Dublin. In You Don't Know What War Is, Yeva records what is happening hour-by-hour as she seeks safety and travels from Kharkiv to Dublin. Each eye-opening diary entry is supplemented by personal photographs, excerpts of messages between Yeva and her friends and daily headlines from around the world, while three beautifully detailed maps (by Kharkiv-native Olga Shtonda) help the reader track Yeva and her granny’s journey. You Don’t Know What War Is is a powerful insight into what conflict is like through the eyes of a child and an essential read for adults and older children alike.Published in association with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword by Michael Morpurgo._______________'Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it. You will love Yeva' Christy Lefteri, No.1 international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo'Yeva speaks a truth all of us must listen to' Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse'Exhilarating, shattering, heartbreaking, brilliant' Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author'The most important story of our times' Viv Groskop, podcaster and writer'A herstory of Ukraine' Olia Hercules, Ukrainian chef and food writer

***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****** Shortlisted for the Children''s Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards***Featured on This Morning, Steph''s Packed Lunch, Radio 4: Today and Channel 4 News_______________Everyone knows the word ''war''. But very few understand what it truly means. When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. Until you''ve been there, you don''t know what war is.This is the gripping and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva''s life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven it should have been. It was while she was forced to seek shelter in a damp, cramped basement that Yeva decided to write down her story. And it is a story the world needs to hear.Yeva captured the nation''s heart when she was featured on Channel 4 News with her granny as they fled Ukraine for Dublin. In You Don''t Know What War Is, Yeva records what is happening hour-by-hour as she seeks safety and travels from Kharkiv to Dublin. Each eye-opening diary entry is supplemented by personal photographs, excerpts of messages between Yeva and her friends and daily headlines from around the world, while three beautifully detailed maps (by Kharkiv-native Olga Shtonda) help the reader track Yeva and her granny''s journey. You Don''t Know What War Is is a powerful insight into what conflict is like through the eyes of a child and an essential read for adults and older children alike.Published in association with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword by Michael Morpurgo._______________''Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it. You will love Yeva'' Christy Lefteri, No.1 international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo''Yeva speaks a truth all of us must listen to'' Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse''Exhilarating, shattering, heartbreaking, brilliant'' Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author''The most important story of our times'' Viv Groskop, podcaster and writer''A herstory of Ukraine'' Olia Hercules, Ukrainian chef and food writer

Das beeindruckende und aufwühlende Kriegs-Tagebuch eines 12-jährigen Mädchens aus der Ukraine."Gegen sechs Uhr abends wird es draußen dunkel. Ich hasse die Nacht. ... In der Dunkelheit scheint immer etwas zu lauern. Die Angst steigt mir in den Hals.« Yeva, Tag 4»Es dreht einem den Magen um‹: Kinder im Ukraine-Krieg« The Guardian, 27.2.2022"Wir haben gehört, es gab einen Beschuss in der Gegend um den Parkplatz hinter unserem Zuhause.« Yeva, Tag 5»Die russische Armee greift Wohngebiete und Zivilisten an – wahllos« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8. 3.2022Yeva Skalietska ist ein ganz normales zwölfjähriges Mädchen aus dem ukrainischen Charkiw, als der Angriff der russischen Armee am 24. Februar 2022 ihrer Kindheit, wie sie sie kannte, ein brutales Ende setzt. Fortan bestimmen die Kriegsgeschehnisse ihren Alltag, hat Yeva Angst um ihr Leben und das ihrer Familie und Freunde. Ihre Kriegserfahrungen hält Yeva fest in einem Tagebuch, in das sie jeden Tag schreibt.Im März 2022 schließlich wird die Wohnung der Familie zerstört – und Yeva und ihre Großmutter Irina fliehen unter gefährlichen Bedingungen und auf verschlungenen Wegen aus ihrer Heimat, das Tagebuch und einen Stift zum Schreiben im Gepäck. Ein neues Zuhause finden Yeva und Irina schließlich nach einer abenteuerlichen Flucht in Irland. Doch auch hier schreibt Yeva weiterhin täglich darüber, was es heißt, die Zerstörung der eigenen Heimat mitzuerleben – und hofft sehnlichst auf ein Ende des Grauens. Für sie steht fest:  "Ich werde so lange Tagebuch führen, bis der Krieg zu Ende ist."Die 12-jährige Yeva Skalietska gibt all den Kindern, die unter dem Krieg in der Ukraine leiden, eine Stimme. Ihr Tagebuch ist ein authentischer Erfahrungsbericht und zugleich ein bestechendes zeitgeschichtliche Dokument.