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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.
Velimir Khlebnikov (Велимир Хлебников)
Velimir Khlebnikov (Велимир Хлебников, born Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, 1885–1922), Russian Futurist poet, co-inventor of zaum, author of Zangezi and Ladomir, 'King of Time' and 'Chairman of the Globe'.
Ventura López
Ventura López, in full Ventura Fernández López (1866–1944), was a Spanish priest, journalist, archaeologist, and cervantist who settled in Toledo, where his eccentricity made him famous as el Cura Loco.
Vera Inber
Vera Inber (Вера Инбер), born Vera Shpentser, was a Russian and Soviet poet whose diary Pochti tri goda recorded the nearly three years she spent in blockaded Leningrad.
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.
Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of 1927 who wrote in Madrid and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977, the last Spanish poet to receive it.
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.
Vijftigers
The Vijftigers, or Beweging van Vijftig, were Dutch and Flemish poets who broke with rhyme and traditional meter in experimental verse from 1949 to 1955.
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).
Vincenzo Monti
Vincenzo Monti (1754–1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, and translator, regarded as the leading figure of Italian Neoclassicism, best remembered for his celebrated translation of Homer's Iliad and the antirevolutionary poem Bassvilliana.
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.
Vítězslav Nezval
Vítězslav Nezval (1900–1958) was a Czech poet, writer, and translator who co-founded poetism in the 1920s, founded the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia in 1934, and ranks among the foremost Czech poets of the twentieth century.
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.
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.
Volker Braun
Volker Braun (born 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer of poetry, drama, and prose, a prominent critical voice of East Germany who won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2000.
Volodymyr Sosiura
Volodymyr Sosiura (Володимир Сосюра, 1898–1965) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and one of the most popular of the twentieth century, author of the patriotic poem "Liubit Ukrainu!" and winner of the Stalin Prize in 1948.
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.
Wacław Potocki
Wacław Potocki (1621–1696) was a Polish Baroque poet, satirist, and moralist who lived near Biecz in Lesser Poland and wrote the epic The Chocim War Transaction.
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940) was a German Expressionist writer and dramatist whose play Der Sohn was the first Expressionist drama to achieve broad success; his anti-war Antigone won the 1917 Kleist Prize.
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.
Wilhelm Küchelbecker
Wilhelm Küchelbecker (Вильгельм Кюхельбекер) was a Russian poet and playwright of German descent, a classmate of Pushkin who took part in the Decembrist uprising of 1825 and died in Siberian exile in 1846.
Wilhelm Lehmann
Wilhelm Lehmann (1882–1968) was a German poet, novelist, and essayist, born in Venezuela, who won the Kleist Prize in 1923 and shaped younger poets like Günter Eich.
Wilhelm Molitor
Wilhelm Molitor (1819–1880) was a German Catholic priest, poet, novelist, and canonist of the Rhine Palatinate, known for the Marian hymn "O Königin voll Herrlichkeit" and the "Domlieder".
Willem Bilderdijk
Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) was a Dutch poet and lawyer, the leading figure of the early Romantic movement in the Netherlands, with more than 300,000 lines of verse.
Willem Kloos
Willem Johannes Theodorus Kloos (1859–1938) was a Dutch poet and critic, co-founder of De Nieuwe Gids and leading theorist of the Tachtigers, the Movement of Eighty.
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet and essayist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature for ironic, precise poetry; about 350 poems, Kraków-based, fifth Polish Nobel laureate in literature.
Władysław Syrokomla
Władysław Syrokomla, the pen name of Ludwik Kondratowicz (1823–1862), was a Polish-language Romantic poet and translator who lived in present-day Belarus and Lithuania and wrote the verse tales called gawędy.