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Vladimir Nabokov (Владимир Набоков)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Набоков), 1899–1977, Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and lepidopterist; émigré pen name Vladimir Sirin; author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and The Gift.
Vladimir Nazor
Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949) was a Croatian poet, writer, and politician, author of Veli Jože, who joined the partisans in 1942 and became president of ZAVNOH.
Vladimir Nazor Award
The Vladimir Nazor Award (Nagrada Vladimir Nazor) is the highest Croatian state award for art, given each year since 1959 for achievements in literature, music, film, visual arts, theater, and architecture.
Vladimir Odoevsky
Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky (1803 or 1804–1869) was a Russian prince, writer, philosopher, pedagogue, and music critic, best known for his philosophical novel Russian Nights (1844).
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin (Владимир Сорокин, born 1955) is a Russian writer of novels, plays, and screenplays whose grotesque, experimental satire of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia includes The Queue and Day of the Oprichnik.
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (1885–1953) was a Russian and Soviet painter and designer regarded as the founder of Constructivism, best known for his unbuilt Tatlin's Tower.
Vladimir Varankin
Vladimir Varankin (Владимир Варанкин, 1902–1938), Soviet historian and Esperantist, SEU Central Committee member, author of Teorio de Esperanto (1929) and the Esperanto novel Metropoliteno (1933), executed in Stalin's purges and rehabilitated in 1957.
Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Voinovich (Владимир Войнович, 1932–2018) was a Russian writer and prominent Soviet-era dissident, best known for the satirical novel The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
Vladimir Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий)
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий), 1938–1980, Soviet actor and singer-poet, Taganka Theatre lead; 500+ songs spread by magnitizdat tape copying; died 25 July 1980 during the Moscow Olympics.
Vladislav Khodasevich
Vladislav Khodasevich, born in Moscow in 1886 and died in 1939, was a Russian poet and Pushkin scholar who became the leading literary critic of the Russian emigration.
Vladislav Petković Dis
Vladislav Petković Dis (Владислав Петковић Дис; 1880–1917) was a Serbian poet of Serbian modernism who introduced dreams and the subconscious into Serbian lyric poetry, publishing Drowned Souls in 1911.
Vlaho Bukovac
Vlaho Bukovac, born Biagio Faggioni, was a Croatian painter from Cavtat who trained in Paris and led the founding of modern Croatian painting in Zagreb in the 1890s.
Vlast
Vlast (블래스트) is a South Korean virtual entertainment company founded in January 2022 as a spin-off from broadcaster MBC, best known as the agency of the virtual boy group PLAVE.
Vlog
A vlog (video blog) is a regularly posted first-person video, typically on YouTube, in which a vlogger speaks directly to camera about daily life; distinct from video podcasts and blogs, with jump-cut editing and authenticity debates as its signature traits.
Vlogbrothers
Vlogbrothers is the YouTube channel of brothers John and Hank Green, started January 1, 2007 as Brotherhood 2.0, center of the Nerdfighteria community, Project for Awesome charity, and the educational company Complexly.
Vợ chồng A Phủ
Vợ chồng A Phủ is a 1952 short story by Vietnamese writer Tô Hoài about two poor Hmong people driven into servitude by a highland landlord.
Vợ nhặt
Vợ nhặt ("The Picked-Up Wife") is a short story by Kim Lân set during Vietnam's 1945 famine, in which the poor cart-hauler Tràng unexpectedly acquires a wife.
Vocal and song festival
A vocal and song festival is a classical music event centered on art song, Lied, and oratorio, often combined with singing competitions such as the IVC in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Vocal group
A vocal group is a small group of singers, three or more, performing coordinated harmony parts as the main musical event, spanning pop, doo wop, gospel, and soul.
Vocal Group Hall of Fame
The Vocal Group Hall of Fame, founded by Tony Butala of The Lettermen, is a Sharon, Pennsylvania nonprofit that has inducted over 200 vocal groups and duos since 1998.
Vocal music
Vocal music is music performed by the human voice, solo or in combination, with or without accompaniment. Covers voice production physiology, song-versus-speech acoustics, genres from chant to throat-singing, Auto-Tune-era production, and singer vocal health.
Vocal range
Vocal range, also called extension, is the span from lowest to highest pitch a voice can produce, measured clinically as a voice range profile (phonetogram) in frequency and sound pressure level, and distinguished from tessitura and ambit.
Vocalion Records
Vocalion Records was an American record label founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Company, known for blues, jazz, and country recordings, including Robert Johnson's only sessions.
Vocaloid music
Vocaloid music, known in Japanese as ボカロ, is songs whose vocals are generated by singing-synthesis software, a Japanese internet scene shaped by Hatsune Miku's 2007 release.
Voces8
Voces8 (VOCES8) is a British eight-voice a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 2005 by brothers Barnaby and Paul Smith, known for Renaissance-to-pop repertoire, Decca and VOCES8 Records releases, a 2023 Grammy nomination, and the VOCES8 Foundation's education programs.
Vodka (водка)
Vodka (водка) is a neutral clear spirit of rectified agricultural ethanol and water, made from rye, wheat, or potatoes, with very low congener levels; origins disputed between Poland and Russia.
Vodka Cranberry (song)
"Vodka Cranberry" (no native form) is a 2025 pop song by Conan Gray, second single from Wishbone, written with producer Dan Nigro, with a Danica Kleinknecht video starring Corey Fogelmanis continuing the Wilson and Brando story.
Vodou flag
A Vodou flag (Haitian Creole drapo) is a ceremonial banner made in Haiti for the religion of Vodou, decorated with sequins, beads, or appliqué and dedicated to a spirit.
Vogon
Vogons are the fictional bureaucratic alien race in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first heard on BBC Radio 4 on 8 March 1978. They demolish Earth for a hyperspace bypass, write the universe's third-worst poetry, and staff the Galactic Civil Service.
Vogue (dance)
Vogue, or voguing, is the stylized Harlem ballroom dance created by Black and Latino LGBTQ communities in the 1960s, with Old Way, New Way, and Vogue Femme styles, five elements, and Houses, popularized worldwide by Madonna's 1990 hit.