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Tarjei Vesaas
Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and poet from Vinje in Telemark who wrote in Nynorsk and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1964 for The Ice Palace.
Tatyana Tolstaya (Татьяна Никитична Толстая)
Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (Татьяна Никитична Толстая), born 1951, Russian writer and TV presenter, granddaughter of Alexei Tolstoy; author of the postmodernist dystopian novel Kys (2000), Triumph prize winner, and co-host of Shkola zlosloviya.
Tezer Özlü
Tezer Özlü (1942–1986) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator known for Cold Nights of Childhood (1980) and for Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk, which won the Marburg Literature Prize.
Theodor Kallifatides
Theodor Kallifatides (Θοδωρής Καλλιφατίδης), born 1938 in Molaoi, Greece, is a Greek-Swedish author and translator who emigrated to Sweden in 1964, known for his trilogy on his Greek childhood village.
Tomris Uyar
Tomris Uyar (Tomris Gedik) was a Turkish short-story writer and translator from English, born in Istanbul in 1941, who won the Sait Faik award twice.
Tõnu Õnnepalu
Tõnu Õnnepalu, who also writes as Emil Tode, is an Estonian writer whose 1993 novel Piiririik, translated as Border State, became one of Estonia's most translated works.
Torgny Lindgren
Torgny Lindgren, full name Gustav Torgny Lindgren (1938–2017), was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy from 1991 whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian novelist, semiotician, and medievalist, professor of Semiotics at Bologna; author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Opera aperta, and Trattato di semiotica generale.
Väinö Linna
Väinö Linna (1920–1992) was a Finnish novelist and former factory worker whose war novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and trilogy Under the North Star became foundations of Finnish literature.
Valentin Rasputin
Valentin Rasputin, born Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, was a Soviet and Russian writer, a leading figure of village prose whose novellas include Live and Remember and Farewell to Matyora.
Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini (1913–1991) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter whose fiction of working-class Florence made him a major voice of Italian neorealism; his novels include Cronache di poveri amanti and Metello.
Vasil Bykau
Vasil Bykau (Belarusian: Васіль Быкаў, 1924–2003) was a Belarusian writer, considered the leading Belarusian author of the post-Stalin period, known for war fiction centered on moral choice.
Vasily Aksyonov
Vasily Aksyonov (Василий Аксёнов, 1932–2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist and playwright, a leading voice of the 1960s youth prose who was stripped of his Soviet citizenship in 1981.
Vasily Grossman (Василий Семёнович Гроссман)
Vasily Grossman (Василий Семёнович Гроссман, 1905–1964), Soviet writer and Red Star war correspondent; author of Life and Fate, the Stalingrad epic seized by the KGB in 1961 and published abroad in 1980.
Vasily Shukshin (Василий Макарович Шукшин)
Vasily Shukshin (Василий Макарович Шукшин, 1929–1974), Soviet writer, film director, and actor from Srostki, Altai. Leading figure of village prose; director of Kalina krasnaya and Pechki-lavochki; USSR State Prize and Lenin Prize laureate; died filming Oni srazhalis za Rodinu.
Veijo Meri
Veijo Meri (1928–2015) was a Finnish prose modernist writer known for war themes without heroism; his debut novel Manillaköysi (1957) was translated into nearly 20 languages.
Venedikt Erofeev
Venedikt Erofeev (Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев; 1938–1990) was a Soviet-era Russian writer best known for the prose poem Moscow–Petushki, a samizdat classic about a drunkard's train journey.
Vergílio Ferreira
Vergílio Ferreira, born Vergílio António Ferreira, was a Portuguese novelist, essayist, and diarist, a leading existentialist writer of the 20th century who won the 1992 Camões Prize.
Victoria Kielland
Victoria Kielland (born 1985) is a Norwegian author from Fredrikstad, best known for her breakthrough novel Mine menn (2021), a reimagining of the life of Belle Gunness.
Vigdís Grímsdóttir
Vigdís Grímsdóttir (born 1953 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic author whose novels about women and outsiders blend realism with Icelandic folklore; she won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1994.
Viktor Nekrasov
Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987) was a Soviet Russian-language writer whose 1946 novella In the Trenches of Stalingrad won a Stalin Prize; he later became a dissident and died in exile in Paris.
Viktor Pelevin
Viktor Pelevin, born in Moscow in 1962, is a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose satire blending Buddhism and consumer culture made him one of post-Soviet Russia's most widely read authors.
Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973) was a Swedish novelist and dramatist, best known for the Emigrant tetralogy, at the center of the 1930s golden age of Swedish working-class literature.
Villy Sørensen
Villy Sørensen (1929–2001) was a Danish author, philosopher, critic, and translator, a central figure of Danish modernism who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1974.
Vladimir Makanin
Vladimir Makanin (Владимир Маканин, 1937–2017) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading post-Soviet prose writers, known for Caucasian Prisoner and The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time.
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 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 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.
Vytautas Bubnys
Vytautas Bubnys (1932–2021) was a Lithuanian prose writer, dramatist, and essayist, one of the most widely printed Soviet-era Lithuanian authors, later a Seimas member from 1992 to 1996.
W. F. Hermans
W. F. Hermans (Willem Frederik Hermans, 1921–1995) was a Dutch writer and physical geographer, one of the "de Grote Drie" of postwar Dutch literature with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.