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Tor Obrestad
Tor Obrestad (1938–2020) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who wrote mainly in Nynorsk, led the Profil modernist circle in the 1960s, and wrote the strike novel Sauda! Streik!
Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976) was a Danish poet, novelist, and memoirist from working-class Copenhagen, one of the most widely read Danish authors of the twentieth century, known for The Copenhagen Trilogy.
Tulenkantajat
Tulenkantajat, Finnish for "Torch Bearers," was a Finnish literary and artistic group of the 1920s known for renewing Finnish poetry and advocating cosmopolitanism; members included Katri Vala and Mika Waltari.
Uku Masing
Uku Masing (born Hugo Albert Masing, 1909–1985) was an Estonian poet, theologian, and philologist who hid his Jewish student during the Nazi occupation, earning recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.
Valdemar Rørdam
Valdemar Rørdam (1872–1946) was a Danish poet and novelist, a leading singer of the Danish land and people until a 1941 poem urging support for Hitler's war destroyed his reputation.
Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1885–1962) was a Finnish poet, professor of literary history, and rector of the University of Turku, best known for the Finlandia hymn lyrics.
Verner von Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) was a Swedish poet and prose writer who led the literary reaction against naturalism in Sweden and received the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Viivi Luik
Viivi Luik, born in 1946 in Estonia, is an Estonian poet and novelist, a leading figure of the 1960s poetry revival and one of the most translated Estonian novelists.
Vilhelm Ekelund
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880–1949) was a Swedish poet and aphorist, a forerunner of lyrical modernism who wrote seven poetry collections from 1900 to 1906 before turning to aphoristic prose.
Vilhelm Krag
Vilhelm Krag (1871–1933) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright, and theater director known as the poet of Southern Norway; his 1890 poem "Fandango" opened the Neo-Romantic movement.
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893–1967) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and literary scholar, ordained a Catholic priest and laicized in 1935, best known for the novel Altorių šešėly (1933).
Vita Andersen
Vita Andersen (1942–2021) was a Danish author whose 1977 debut Tryghedsnarkomaner sold about 90,000 copies and introduced knækprosa, a plain, speech-like verse form; she won Kritikerprisen in 1987.
Vytautas Mačernis
Vytautas Mačernis was a Lithuanian poet, regarded as one of the youngest classics of Lithuanian literature, known for philosophical lyric poetry shaped by existentialism and his native Samogitia.
Werner Aspenström
Werner Aspenström (1918–1997) was a Swedish poet, essayist, and dramatist of the forties generation, a Swedish Academy member from 1981 to 1989, and one of Sweden's most widely read poets.
Zachris Topelius
Zachris Topelius (1818–1898), known in Finnish usage as Sakari Topelius, was a Finnish-Swedish author, journalist, and historian who shaped Finnish national identity and rector of the University of Helsinki.
Þórarinn Eldjárn
Þórarinn Eldjárn (born 1949) is an Icelandic poet, novelist, short-story writer, and translator who has published dozens of books since his 1974 debut, best known for humorous children's poetry with his sister Sigrún Eldjárn.