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Writing in Wartime - when words fail

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May 7, 2022

Ukrainian writer Tanja Maljartschuk is the recipient of the 2022 Usedom Literature Prize. The fighting in her home country has left her unable to write. She tells Arts 21 why the war has silenced her.

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