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Vladimir Makanin
Vladimir Makanin (Владимир Маканин, 1937–2017) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading post-Soviet prose writers, known for Caucasian Prisoner and The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time.
Vladimir Nabokov (Владимир Набоков)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Набоков), 1899–1977, Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and lepidopterist; émigré pen name Vladimir Sirin; author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and The Gift.
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.
Vladimir Odoevsky
Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky (1803 or 1804–1869) was a Russian prince, writer, philosopher, pedagogue, and music critic, best known for his philosophical novel Russian Nights (1844).
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin (Владимир Сорокин, born 1955) is a Russian writer of novels, plays, and screenplays whose grotesque, experimental satire of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia includes The Queue and Day of the Oprichnik.
Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Voinovich (Владимир Войнович, 1932–2018) was a Russian writer and prominent Soviet-era dissident, best known for the satirical novel The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
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.
Volodia Teitelboim
Volodia Teitelboim, born Valentín Teitelboim Volosky (1916–2008), was a Chilean writer and Communist politician who led the party in exile and won the 2002 National Literature Prize.
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.
Vonani Bila
Vonani Bila (born 1972) is a South African poet from Shirley Village in Limpopo, best known as founder of the Timbila Poetry Project and founding editor of the journal Timbila.
Vox Day
Vox Day, pen name of an American writer and publisher (Vox Popoli blogger), author of A Throne of Bones, the SJWs Always Lie series, Rabid Puppies Hugo slate organizer, Castalia House founder.
Vrindavan Lal Verma
Vrindavan Lal Verma (वृंदावनलाल वर्मा, 1889–1969) was a Hindi novelist, short-story writer, and playwright from Jhansi, called the "Walter Scott" of India for his historical novels.
Vṛndāvana Dāsa
Vṛndāvana Dāsa (वृन्दावन दास) was a sixteenth-century Bengali Vaiṣṇava poet and disciple of Nityānanda who wrote the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the first full-length Bangla hagiography of Krishna Chaitanya.
Vsevolod Garshin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855 to 1888) was a Russian short-story writer famous for "Four Days" and "The Red Flower", admired for tales of war, injustice, and mental illness.
Vũ Ngọc Phan
Vũ Ngọc Phan (1902–1987) was a Vietnamese writer, literary critic, and folklorist, author of Nhà văn hiện đại and Tục ngữ, ca dao, dân ca Việt Nam.
Vũ Trọng Phụng
Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912–1939) was a Vietnamese writer and journalist, a leading realist figure best known for the satirical novels Số đỏ (Dumb Luck) and Trúng số độc đắc.
Vuk Karadžić
Vuk Karadžić (Вук Караџић, 1787–1864) was a Serbian philologist who reformed the Serbian alphabet and literary language, collected folk songs, and wrote the first Serbian dictionary in 1818.
Vyankatesh Madgulkar
Vyankatesh Madgulkar (व्यंकटेश माडगूळकर; 1927–2001) was a Marathi writer and screenwriter from Maharashtra, known for rural fiction, the novel Bangarwadi, and the 1983 Sahitya Akademi award for Sattantar.
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (വൈലോപ്പിള്ളി ശ്രീധരമേനോൻ; 1911–1985) was an Indian Malayalam poet whose works, including Kudiyozhikkal and Mambazham, moved Malayalam poetry toward a modern, socially alert voice.
Vytautas Bubnys
Vytautas Bubnys (1932–2021) was a Lithuanian prose writer, dramatist, and essayist, one of the most widely printed Soviet-era Lithuanian authors, later a Seimas member from 1992 to 1996.
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.
Vyvyan Holland
Vyvyan Holland (Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde, 1886-1967), second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd; name changed to Holland in 1895; writer, translator, author of Son of Oscar Wilde (1954).
W. A. Silva
W. A. Silva, full name Wellawattearachchige Abraham Silva (1890–1957), was a Sinhala novelist and journalist from Colombo whose romances and historical novels made him a first best-selling popularizer of the Sinhala novel.
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (W.B. Yeats, 1865–1939), Irish poet, dramatist, Abbey Theatre co-founder, Free State senator, and 1923 Nobel laureate; occult system behind A Vision, poems from The Wanderings of Oisin to The Tower and The Second Coming.
W. F. Hermans
W. F. Hermans (Willem Frederik Hermans, 1921–1995) was a Dutch writer and physical geographer, one of the "de Grote Drie" of postwar Dutch literature with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald (Winfried Georg Sebald, 1944–2001), German writer and UEA professor in Norwich, author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz; hybrid photo-text prose on memory, exile, and the Holocaust, written in German.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden (1907–1973), English-born poet and librettist of the Auden Generation, emigrated to America, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Anxiety, and pioneered modern diction in English verse.
W. O. Mitchell
W. O. Mitchell, full name William Ormond Mitchell, was a Canadian novelist and broadcaster best known for Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) and Jake and the Kid.