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The award-winning Ukrainian novelist and short story writer Natalia Matolinets is fascinated by the layers of common history shared by the cities of central Europe. She was born and lives in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which, she says, has many similarities to Prague, both in its beauty and in the complexity of its past. She is in Prague for a two-month residency, as part of the UNESCO City of Literature project. David Vaughan went to meet her in the atmospheric caf\xe9 of the Scouts\u2019 Institute, in the courtyard of one of the old houses on the Old Town Square.