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Visual novel
Visual novel (ノベルゲーム, novel game; sound novel): text-forward digital fiction with mostly static graphics, click-advanced text, and branching choices; originated in 1980s Japan, 18,000+ titles on VNDB, major franchises like Fate/stay night.
Visual novel awards
Visual novel awards are prizes recognizing bishōjo games and visual novels; the annual Moe Game Award is the main industry award, while the Getchu.com Bishojo Game Award ran from 2003 to 2023.
Viswadarshanam
Viswadarshanam (വിശ്വദർശനം, "Vision of the Universe") is a 1960 Malayalam poetry collection by G. Sankara Kurup, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova, also written Vita nova, is a prosimetrum by Dante Alighieri, composed around 1292 to 1295, mixing thirty-one poems with prose about his love for Beatrice.
Viva o Povo Brasileiro
Viva o Povo Brasileiro is a 1984 novel by the Brazilian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, recounting nearly four centuries of Brazilian history through characters in the Recôncavo Baiano region of Bahia.
Vivo sin vivir en mí
"Vivo sin vivir en mí" is a mystical poem by Teresa of Ávila, opening "I live without living in myself... I die because I do not die."
Vladimir Harkonnen
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Siridar-Baron of Giedi Prime in Frank Herbert's 1965 Dune, is the antagonist who destroys Duke Leto Atreides, secretly fathers Lady Jessica, and is killed by Alia in 10193 AG.
Vladimir Varankin
Vladimir Varankin (Владимир Варанкин, 1902–1938), Soviet historian and Esperantist, SEU Central Committee member, author of Teorio de Esperanto (1929) and the Esperanto novel Metropoliteno (1933), executed in Stalin's purges and rehabilitated in 1957.
Vợ chồng A Phủ
Vợ chồng A Phủ is a 1952 short story by Vietnamese writer Tô Hoài about two poor Hmong people driven into servitude by a highland landlord.
Vợ nhặt
Vợ nhặt ("The Picked-Up Wife") is a short story by Kim Lân set during Vietnam's 1945 famine, in which the poor cart-hauler Tràng unexpectedly acquires a wife.
Vogon
Vogons are the fictional bureaucratic alien race in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first heard on BBC Radio 4 on 8 March 1978. They demolish Earth for a hyperspace bypass, write the universe's third-worst poetry, and staff the Galactic Civil Service.
Vội vàng
"Vội vàng" ("Hurriedly") is a Vietnamese poem by Xuân Diệu, first printed in his 1938 collection Thơ thơ and a representative work of the Thơ mới movement.
Voices Made Night
Voices Made Night (Vozes anoitecidas) is a 1986 short story collection by Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer, portraying ordinary people amid civil war in reinvented Portuguese.
Volga Se Ganga
Volga Se Ganga (वोल्गा से गंगा) is a collection of twenty historical stories in Hindi by Rahul Sankrityayan, tracing human society from the Volga in 6000 BCE to the Ganga in 1942.
Volume Two
Volume Two is a 1949 poetry collection by the Filipino poet José García Villa, published by New Directions and first collecting his comma poems.
Völundarkviða
Völundarkviða, meaning "The Lay of Völundr," is an Old Norse Eddic poem telling how the legendary smith Völundr, mutilated and enslaved by King Níðuðr, takes revenge and escapes by flight.
Voronezh Notebooks
The Voronezh Notebooks (Воронежские тетради) is the final book of poems by Osip Mandelstam, written during his internal exile in Voronezh; none was published in his lifetime.
Vou-me Embora pra Pasárgada
"Vou-me Embora pra Pasárgada" is one of the best-known poems of the Brazilian modernist Manuel Bandeira, published in his 1930 collection Libertinagem, in which the speaker escapes to an imagined paradise.
Voyager (novel)
Voyager (1993) is Diana Gabaldon's third Outlander novel, reuniting Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser in 1766 Edinburgh after Culloden and carrying them to the West Indies.
Voyages extraordinaires
The Voyages extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages) is the collective title of Jules Verne's series of 62 adventure and science novels, published from 1863 to 1919 and including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Vozes d'África
Vozes d'África (Voices of Africa) is an abolitionist poem written in 1868 by the Brazilian poet Castro Alves, in which enslaved Africa addresses God in lament.
Vril
Vril is the fictional all-purpose energy source invented by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1871 novel The Coming Race, wielded by the subterranean Vril-ya and later taken as real by occultists, inspiring the Bovril name and Vril Society legends.
Vuk Award
The Vuk Award (Вукова награда) is an annual Serbian cultural award established in 1964 by the Cultural and Educational Community of Serbia, honoring the legacy of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.
Vuta N'kuvute
Vuta N'kuvute, translated as A Tug of War, is an award-winning Swahili-language novel by Zanzibar-born writer Shafi Adam Shafi, first published in 1999 and set in colonial Zanzibar.
Vyakti Ani Valli
Vyakti Ani Valli (व्यक्ती आणि वल्ली) is a 1962 collection of humorous Marathi character sketches by P. L. Deshpande that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.
W.I.T.C.H.
W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian Disney comic magazine (2001–2012, 139 issues) created by Elisabetta Gnone with Barbucci and Canepa, following five girls, Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin, in euromanga style.
Waiting for an Angel
Waiting for an Angel is the 2002 debut novel of Nigerian writer Helon Habila, following journalist Lomba, imprisoned on fabricated charges in 1990s Lagos under military rule.
Waiting for Fear
Waiting for Fear (Korkuyu Beklerken) is a 1975 short story collection by the Turkish writer Oğuz Atay, his only one, portraying isolated, alienated individuals in 1970s Turkey.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians is J. M. Coetzee's 1980 novel, titled after C. P. Cavafy's poem, set in an unnamed frontier settlement of an unidentified Empire where the Magistrate's relationship with a tortured barbarian girl dramatizes imperial violence; widely read as an apartheid-era allegory.
Waiting for the Rain
Waiting for the Rain is a 1975 novel in English by the Zimbabwean writer Charles Mungoshi, published by Heinemann in London, depicting the fragmentation of a Shona family.