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Vince Flynn
Vince Flynn (1966–2013), St. Paul thriller author and creator of CIA counterterrorist Mitch Rapp; self-published debut Term Limits after 60+ rejections, wrote 13 NYT-bestselling Rapp novels; series continued by Kyle Mills and Don Bentley.
Vincent O'Sullivan
Vincent O'Sullivan (1937–2024) was a New Zealand poet, novelist, and biographer, best known for co-editing the five-volume Letters of Katherine Mansfield and serving as Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
Vincenzo Latronico
Vincenzo Latronico (born 1984, Rome) is an Italian novelist and translator, author of Le perfezioni (2022), published in English as Perfection, a rewriting of Perec's Things shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.
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.
Vinda Karandikar
Vinda Karandikar (विंदा करंदीकर), born Govind Vinayak Karandikar (1918–2010), was a leading Marathi poet, essayist, and translator who received the Jnanpith Award in 2003 for Ashtadarshane.
Vine Deloria Jr.
Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) was a Standing Rock Lakota scholar, theologian, and historian, best known for his 1969 bestseller Custer Died for Your Sins and his critique of anthropology.
Vinod Kumar Shukla
Vinod Kumar Shukla (विनोद कुमार शुक्ल, 1937–2025) was an Indian Hindi writer known for novels and poetry about small-town middle-class life, who won the Jnanpith Award in 2025.
Violet Clifton
Violet Clifton, née Beauclerk, was an English writer of travel books and biography, born in Rome in 1883, who won the 1933 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Virgil
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; Italian: Publio Virgilio Marone; 70–19 BCE), Roman poet of the Augustan period, author of the ten Eclogues, the four-book Georgics, and the unfinished twelve-book Aeneid, published after his death at Brundisium.
Virgilio Almario
Virgilio Almario, also known as Rio Alma, is a Filipino poet, critic, and translator who was named National Artist for Literature of the Philippines in 2003.
Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright, born in Cárdenas, regarded as a pioneer of absurdist literature in Cuba and Spanish America.
Virgilio Rodríguez Macal
Virgilio Rodríguez Macal (1916–1964) was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, and diplomat known for criollista novels set in the Petén jungle, including La mansión del pájaro serpiente.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822–1847), Edgar Allan Poe's first cousin and wife, married him publicly in Richmond in 1836 at age 13; died of tuberculosis at Fordham, New York, January 30, 1847, aged 24.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen, 1882–1941), English modernist novelist, essayist, and Hogarth Press co-founder; author of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own; pioneer of stream-of-consciousness and free indirect discourse.
Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte
Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (विष्णु भिकाजी कोलते; 1908–1998) was a Marathi writer, poet, and researcher of old Marathi literature, best known for decoding and critically editing the literature of the Mahanubhava sect.
Vishnu Prabhakar
Vishnu Prabhakar (विष्णु प्रभाकर, 1912 to 2009) was a Hindi writer of novels, plays, and biographies, best known for Aawara Masiha and the award-winning Ardhanarisvara.
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, known as V. S. Khandekar, was a Marathi writer who became the first Marathi author to win the Jnanpith Award, for his novel Yayati.
Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (1939–2021) was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam and Sanskrit, taught English literature, and received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, and the Padma Shri in 2014.
Vishvanatha Kaviraja
Vishvanatha Kaviraja (विश्वनाथ कविराज) was a 14th-century Sanskrit poet, dramatist, and theorist from Utkala (Odisha), best known for the treatise Sahityadarpana, which made rasa the soul of poetry.
Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (विश्वनाथ प्रसाद तिवारी) is an Indian Hindi poet, critic, and editor who served as President of the Sahitya Akademi from 2013 to 2017.
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ, 1895–1976) was a Telugu poet and novelist known as Kavi Samrat, who wrote hundreds of works and won the first Telugu Jnanpith Award for his verse Ramayana.
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.
Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West (Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 1892–1962), English poet, novelist, and gardener; winner of the Hawthornden Prize twice (The Land, Collected Poems); author of The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, model for Woolf's Orlando, creator of Sissinghurst garden; distinguishable from other Sackville-West family members by her Knole inheritance and Virginia Woolf relationship.
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.
Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian poet (1490–1547), the most celebrated female Petrarchist of the sixteenth century, whose Rime were first printed in 1538.
Vittorio Alfieri
Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian tragic poet and political thinker who wrote nineteen tragedies between 1776 and 1786, including Saul and Mirra, and is counted among the precursors of the Risorgimento.
Vivian Ayers Allen
Vivian Ayers Allen (1923-2025), American poet, playwright, classicist, and cultural activist; author of the 1957 space-flight allegory Hawk; first Black full-time faculty member at Rice University; mother of Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen.
Vizma Belševica
Vizma Belševica was a Latvian poet, prose writer, and translator whose work clashed with Soviet censorship and earned repeated Nobel Prize nominations; she died in 2005.
Vladimir Dal
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (1801–1872) was a Russian lexicographer, writer, and physician who compiled the four-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language with over 200,000 words.
Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Korolenko (Владимир Короленко), 1853 to 1921, was a Russian short-story writer and publicist of Ukrainian-Polish parentage known for stories of exiles set in Siberia and Ukraine.