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Valentin Vodnik
Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819) was a Slovene poet, priest, and journalist of the Enlightenment, regarded as the first Slovene secular poet and author of the first Slovene poetry collection, newspaper, and grammar.
Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli, born in Mexico City in 1983, is a Mexican writer whose novels and essays on migration and borders include Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive.
Valerian Pidmohylny
Valerian Pidmohylny (Валер'ян Підмогильний, 1901 to 1937) was a Ukrainian prose writer and translator of French classics, best known for the novel Misto (The City).
Valerie Mendes
Valerie Mendes (born 1939, Buckinghamshire) is a British novelist of young adult fiction (Girl in the Attic, The Drowning) and adult historical novels (Larkswood, The Choice), distinct from V&A fashion historian Valerie D. Mendes.
Valerius Flaccus
Valerius Flaccus was a Roman epic poet of the Flavian age (69–96 CE) who wrote the Argonautica, an unfinished eight-book Latin epic on Jason and the Argonauts.
Valery Bryusov
Valery Bryusov (Валерий Брюсов) was a Russian poet, prose writer, and translator who founded and led Russian symbolism, making it a coherent literary movement from the 1890s onward.
Valery Larbaud
Valery Larbaud was a French writer, critic, and translator, born and died in Vichy, who made Joyce known in France and wrote under the pseudonym A. O. Barnabooth.
Vallathol Narayana Menon (വള്ളത്തോൾ നാരായണ മേനോൻ)
Vallathol Narayana Menon (വള്ളത്തോൾ നാരായണ മേനോൻ), 1878–1958, Malayalam poet of the great trio with Asan and Ulloor; author of Chitrayogam, Magdalana Mariyam, Sahityamanjari; founder of Kerala Kalamandalam (1930); Padma Bhushan 1955.
Vannadasan
Vannadasan (வண்ணதாசன்), pen name of S. Kalyanasundaram, is a Tamil short story writer and poet, born in 1946 in Tirunelveli, who won the 2016 Sahitya Akademi Award for Oru Siru Isai.
Varpai generation
The Varpai generation is a group of Lithuanian poets, born mostly in the 1910s and early 1920s, whose work first appeared in the wartime almanac Varpai.
Varro
Varro, or Marcus Terentius Varro, was a Roman scholar and writer (116–27 BC) regarded as the most learned of ancient authors; only one treatise survives nearly intact.
Varsha Adalja
Varsha Adalja (વર્ષા અડાલજા), born 1940, is an Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, and editor, a pioneering feminist voice who won the 1995 Sahitya Akademi Award for Ansar.
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.
Vasdev Mohi
Vasdev Mohi (1944–2021) was an Indian Sindhi poet and translator who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999 for his ghazal collection Barf Jo Thahyal.
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.
Vasil Vitka
Vasil Vitka (Васіль Вітка, born Timofey Krysko, 1911–1996) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and playwright known chiefly for children's literature, winning the 1972 Yanka Kupala State Prize.
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890) was a Romanian poet, dramatist, folklorist, politician, and diplomat, a leading figure of the 1848 generation who wrote the Pasteluri and Chirița comedies and campaigned for the union of the Romanian Principalities.
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 Rozanov
Vasily Rozanov (Василий Васильевич Розанов, 1856–1919) was a Russian religious philosopher and writer, a leading voice of the Russian Religious-Philosophical Renaissance known for works on sex, marriage, and the family.
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.
Vasily Trediakovsky
Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1769) was a Russian poet and philologist who began the reform of Russian versification and was the first Russian professor at the Academy of Sciences.
Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Василий Жуковский, 1783–1852) was a Russian poet and translator regarded as the founder of Romanticism in Russian poetry and tutor of Alexander II.
Vasyl Stefanyk
Vasyl Stefanyk (Василь Стефаник, 1871–1936) was a Ukrainian prose writer, publicist, and political figure from Galicia who wrote 59 short novellas about peasant life, a classic of early Ukrainian modernism.
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus (Василь Стус) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and human rights activist of the sixtiers generation who died in 1985 as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.
Vasyl Symonenko
Vasyl Symonenko (Василь Симоненко) was a Ukrainian poet and dissident whose samvydav poetry largely marks the beginning of the Ukrainian opposition movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Vatroslav Jagić
Vatroslav Jagić (1838–1923) was a Croatian philologist and a founder of modern Slavic studies, professor at Odesa, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna and founding editor of the journal Archiv für slavische Philologie.
Vayalar Ramavarma
Vayalar Ramavarma (വയലാർ രാമവർമ്മ; 1928–1975), known simply as Vayalar, was a Malayalam poet and film lyricist from Kerala who wrote about 2,000 film songs.
Vazha-Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela (ვაჟა-ფშაველა), pen name of Luka Razikashvili, was a Georgian poet, 1861–1915, whose epic poems and nature lyrics made him a central figure of Georgian literature.
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.