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Celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature and the author of the epic Ramayana
Valmiki was a legendary poet and Hindu maharishi who is celebrated as the traditional author of the smriti epic Ramayana, one of Hinduism's two Itihasas, based on the attribution in the text itself.
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Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author.
Read biography ↗Swedish writer (1859–1940)
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville.
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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
Read biography ↗Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1086 to 1087
Pope Victor III, born Dauferio Epifani Del Zotto, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 May 1086 to his death.
Read biography ↗Dutch painter (1853–1890)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
Read biography ↗Roman poet (1st century BC)
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
Read biography ↗English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors.
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