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Uroob
Uroob (ഉറൂബ്) was the pen name of P. C. Kuttikrishnan (1915–1979), a Malayalam novelist and screenwriter whose novel Sundarikalum Sundaranmarum won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960.
Ursula Bethell
Ursula Bethell (1874–1945), who published as Evelyn Hayes, was a New Zealand poet and pioneer of modern New Zealand poetry, known for garden poems drawn from the Canterbury landscape.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018), born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, was an American author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and the Earthsea series; winner of six Nebulas, seven Hugos, and the 2014 National Book Foundation Medal.
Usha Priyamvada
Usha Priyamvada, pen name of Usha Nilsson, is an Indian-born American Hindi novelist of the Nayi Kahani movement, best known for her first novel, Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (1961).
Usman Awang
Usman Awang, pen name Tongkat Warrant, was a Malaysian poet and playwright named the third Sasterawan Negara in 1983 and known as the People's Poet.
Ustad Bukhari
Ustad Bukhari (استاد بخاري), born Syed Ahmed Shah Bukhari, was a progressive Sindhi-language poet of Sindh, Pakistan, whose poetry voiced the lives of farmers, laborers, and the poor.
Ustad Daman
Ustad Daman (استاد دامن), born Chiragh Din, was a Punjabi poet and tailor of Lahore, Pakistan, known for extemporaneous verse against colonial rule and Pakistani governments.
Ustadh Mau
Ustadh Mau is the pen name of Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir (born 1952), a Swahili poet and imam from Lamu, Kenya, writing didactic poetry in the Kiamu dialect.
Uvaysi
Uvaysi, pen name of Jahon otin, was a classical Uzbek poetess (around 1780 to 1845) who served at the Kokand court and taught poetry to the queen Nodira.
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) was a German novelist, translator, and editor who made the division of Germany his central subject; his four-volume Jahrestage (1970–1983) is a major twentieth-century German novel.
Uys Krige
Uys Krige (Mattheus Uys Krige, 1910–1987) was a South African poet, playwright, and translator in Afrikaans and English, a member of the Dertigers who won two Hertzog Prizes.
V. C. Andrews
V.C. Andrews, pen name of Cleo Virginia Andrews (1923–1986), American Gothic novelist, author of Flowers in the Attic and the Dollanganger series; over 107 million copies sold, continued posthumously by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman.
V. E. Schwab
V. E. Schwab, also known as Victoria Schwab, is an American fantasy author known for the Shades of Magic series and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
V. K. Gokak
V. K. Gokak (Vinayak Krishna Gokak) was an Indian writer in Kannada and English who won the 1990 Jnanpith Award for his epic Bharata Sindhurashmi.
V. K. N.
V. K. N., born Vadakke Koottala Narayanankutty Nair, was a Malayalam writer known for highbrow satire, and won the Sahitya Akademi Award before dying in 2004.
V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul), Trinidadian-born British novelist and travel writer, Nobel laureate 2001 and Booker winner 1971 for In a Free State, author of A House for Mr Biswas.
V. Y. Mudimbe
V. Y. Mudimbe, born Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (1941–2025), was a Congolese philosopher, philologist, and novelist best known for The Invention of Africa (1988), a critique of Western knowledge about Africa.
Václav Matěj Kramerius
Václav Matěj Kramerius (1753–1808) was a Czech Enlightenment writer, journalist, and publisher, regarded as the founder of modern Czech journalism and a leading figure of the Czech National Revival.
Vagif
Vagif is a 1937 verse drama in Azerbaijani by poet and playwright Samad Vurgun, about the 18th-century poet Molla Panah Vagif, premiered in Baku in 1938.
Vahan Tekeyan
Vahan Tekeyan (Վահան Թեքեյան, 1878–1945) was a Western Armenian poet, editor, and publicist born in Constantinople who settled in Cairo, regarded as the last major representative of Western Armenian classical lyric poetry.
Vahshi Bafqi
Vahshi Bafqi (وحشی بافقی) was a Persian poet of the Safavid era, best known for his ghazals and the romance Shirin o Farhad; he died in 1583.
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീർ)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീർ, 1908-1994), the 'Beypore Sultan', was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and freedom fighter; author of Premalekhanam, Balyakalasakhi, Mathilukal, and Pathummayude Aadu, and Padma Shri recipient in 1982.
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.
Vairamuthu (வைரமுத்து)
Vairamuthu (வைரமுத்து), born 1953 in Theni district, is a Tamil poet and film lyricist with about 7,500 songs, seven National Film Awards, the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, and the 60th Jnanpith Award for 2025.
Vaishnava hagiography
Vaishnava hagiography is the body of sacred biography in Hinduism recounting Vaishnava saints and Krishna Chaitanya, written largely in Bengali and Sanskrit from the sixteenth century onward.
Vajra Chandrasekera
Vajra Chandrasekera (born 1979, Colombo) is a Sri Lankan speculative fiction writer; The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won the Nebula and Locus awards, Rakesfall (2024) won the Le Guin and Otherwise awards.
Vakpati
Vakpati, or Vakpatiraja, was an 8th-century Indian court poet at the court of King Yashovarman of Kanauj, known for the Gaudavaho, a Mahārāṣṭrī Prakrit epic.
Val McDermid
Val McDermid (born 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan, Lindsay Gordon, and Allie Burns series, a CWA Gold Dagger winner associated with Tartan Noir.
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.
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.