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Victoria Benedictsson
Victoria Benedictsson, born Victoria Maria Bruzelius and writing under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren, was a Swedish author of the 1880s realist movement known for Pengar and Fru Marianne.
Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop, also known as Victoria Hamson, is a British novelist whose historical fiction set mostly in Greece has sold more than ten million copies, most famously The Island (2005).
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.
Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo (1890–1979) was an Argentine essayist, editor, and patron who founded the journal Sur in 1931, published the ten-volume Testimonios, and was imprisoned in 1953 for opposing Perón.
Victoria Price
Victoria Price (born 1962, Santa Monica) is an American writer, designer, and speaker, daughter of actor Vincent Price and Mary Grant, and author of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography (1999).
Vienna Group
The Vienna Group (Wiener Gruppe) was a circle of experimental Austrian writers active in Vienna from the early 1950s until 1964, known for concrete and visual poetry.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thanh Việt, born 1971) is a Vietnamese American novelist and USC professor whose debut novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he later wrote The Committed, The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies, and the memoir A Man of Two Faces.
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.
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.
Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri, born in Bangalore in 1954, is an American poet who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 3 Sections, the first Asian American poet to win it.
Vijaya Dasa
Vijaya Dasa (ವಿಜಯದಾಸರು, 1682–1755), born Dasappa, was a Kannada Haridasa saint and composer who revived the Haridasa movement in Karnataka, composing about 25,000 devotional songs under the pen name Vijaya Vittala.
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.
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup is a retired Indian diplomat and novelist, best known for Q & A (2005), the novel adapted into the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
Vikenty Veresaev
Vikenty Veresaev (born Smidovich) was a Russian and Soviet writer and physician best known for his autobiographical Notes of a Doctor, which sparked a 1901 medical-ethics controversy.
Vikram Chandra (novelist)
Vikram Chandra, Indian-born novelist (Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Love and Longing in Bombay, Sacred Games) and author of Geek Sublime; Sacred Games became Netflix's first Indian original series, 2018, with Chandra as executive producer.
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth (विक्रम सेठ), Indian poet and novelist born 1952 in Calcutta, author of the sonnet-novel The Golden Gate and the 1,349-page epic A Suitable Boy; also wrote An Equal Music, From Heaven Lake, and Two Lives.
Viktor Astafyev
Viktor Astafyev (Виктор Петрович Астафьев), 1924 to 2001, was a Russian writer and decorated front-line soldier whose works include The Last Bow, Tsar-ryba, and Cursed and Killed.
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.
Viktor Rydberg
Viktor Rydberg, full name Abraham Viktor Rydberg (1828–1895), was a Swedish novelist, poet, and scholar, known for Singoalla, his Bible-critical theology, and Germanic mythology studies.
Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, novelist, and screenwriter, a leading founder of Russian Formalism and originator of ostranenie, or defamiliarization.
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.
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.
Vilis Lācis
Vilis Lācis, real name Jānis Vilhelms Lācis (1904–1966), was a Latvian novelist, best known for The Fisherman's Son, and head of government of the Latvian SSR from 1940 to 1959.
Villiputturar
Villiputturar (வில்லிபுத்தூரார்), also called Villiputtur Alvar or Villi, was a 14th-century Tamil poet from Thanjavur whose Villi Bharatham, a celebrated Tamil version of the Mahabharata, runs to about 4,350 verses.
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.
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, born Vincas Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian prose writer, dramatist, folklorist, and professor, a classic of Lithuanian literature whose works include Skirgaila and Mindaugo mirtis.
Vincas Kudirka
Vincas Kudirka (1858–1899) was a Lithuanian writer, physician, and national revival activist who founded the monthly Varpas and wrote the words and music of Lithuania's national anthem, Tautiška giesmė.
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).