Episode 147 / Anton Eine, a science fiction and nonfiction author who lives in Ukraine, joins us this week and shares his experience of being a writer living in Kiev and Lviv during the war and how he translated those experiences into a documentarian war diary, The Thin Blue-Yellow Line Between Love and Hate.
Show notes:
- Why Anton decided to take a break from fiction and write a war diary documenting his life and the stories of his fellow Ukranians in the months after Russia invaded Ukraine
- How the creative project gave him a type of creative freedom he hadn’t experienced when writing fiction
- How writing about painful experiences can be a cathartic experience
- How Anton gets his books translated and how works with Ukrainian creatives through his writing and publishing process
- How he focused on a creative project in the middle of the uncertainty of war and how he used that uncertainty as motivation
- How fragile peace is and how we should value it
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Links:
Anton’s website: https://antoneine.com
The Thin Blue-Yellow Line Between Love and Hate: https://mybook.to/TBYLKn
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Thank you for this interview with author Anton Eine. I have his book. I am reading it in the Ukrainian language because I am a Ukrainian living in America and I want to help preserve the Ukrainian culture, language, and traditions of my ancestral country, from which my parents escaped during WW2. I am impressed with Anton’s language skills — in Ukrainian, Russian, and English. His perceptions of the war in Ukraine are exactly what I have heard from my relatives in Ukraine. His mission is an honorable one, which I share. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to her Heroes!
So glad you found the episode and that it resonated!