Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter V

French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the coun

French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions.

Is a Croatian writer, columnist and entrepreneur.

Is a Croatian writer, columnist and entrepreneur.

A veteran of thousands of hours of telecasting, Vinod Dua is an anchor, political commentator, elect

A veteran of thousands of hours of telecasting, Vinod Dua is an anchor, political commentator, election analyst, producer and director.His first appearance on television was on 27th November 1974 in Yuv Manch, a Hindi youth program aired on Delhi T.V. (which later became Doordarshan). In 1975 Dua anchored Yuv Jan for the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (S.I.T.E) telecast for the youth of Raipur, Muzaffarpur and Jaipur. In the same year he started anchoring Jawan Tarang, the youth program of newly commissioned Amritsar T.V. He continued to anchor youth programs for these channels till 1980. In 1981 he started anchoring the Sunday morning family magazine Aap Ke Liye and continued to do so till 1984. The year 1984 marked a turning point in Vinod Dua’s career when he co-anchored the election analysis programs on Doordarshan with noted psephologist Dr. Prannoy Roy and has since then been a regular presence on election analysis programs on different channels.

A modern Hindi writer known for his simple yet charming style that often borders on magic-realism. H

A modern Hindi writer known for his simple yet charming style that often borders on magic-realism. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez (which has been made into a movie The Servant's Shirt by Mani Kaul); and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi (A Window lived in a Wall) which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi work in 1999.was brought out in 1988, and another collection of poems in 1992, Sab Kuch Hona Bacha Rahega.in shuklaji literuture,you have to seen the epic of middle class. critics often told that if you have seen the chhattisgarh in a single novel then read khilega to dekhenge

Was a Romanian writer.Born in Segarcea, he graduated from the Saint Sava National College, then stud

Was a Romanian writer.Born in Segarcea, he graduated from the Saint Sava National College, then studied Law, and then Letters, including terms at universities in Italy and Austria. An associate of the far right thinker Nichifor Crainic, Horia sat on the editorial board of his Sfarma Piatra journal.[1] He contributed to Gândirea and Porunca Vremii articles praising the Italian fascism of Benito Mussolini (Miracolul fascist — "The Fascist Miracle"),[2] as well as pieces attacking authors whom the traditionalist group viewed as decadent (notably, Tudor Arghezi and Eugen Lovinescu).[3]

Was a Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered as one of the founder

Was a Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered as one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition.[1] [2]Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkievich was born into a szlachta family in the region of Babruysk. He graduated from the Medical faculty of the University of St. PetersburgHe wrote both in contemporary Belarusian and Polish languages. Writing in modern Belarusian language he faced the problem of its being not standartized, as the written tradition of the Old Belarusian (Ruthenian) language has been largely extinct by that time.

Was a significant German composer and conductor. He was the youngest brother of Franz Lachner, also

Was a significant German composer and conductor. He was the youngest brother of Franz Lachner, also a composer and conductor and well known as a close friend of Franz Schubert. As a composer Lachner was essentially self-taught. He was first educated by his father Anton Lachner, the municipal organist, and after Anton's death was schooled in Augsburg, where he subsequently scratched out a living teaching music until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Poznan. In 1831 he moved to Vienna to continue his musical training, becoming assistant conductor at the Court Opera and organist at a Protestant church (though he himself was Catholic).

An author and honorary Director of Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication, run by Sur

An author and honorary Director of Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication, run by Surajmal Memorial Education Society, New Delhi.He was born on 3 July 1935 at village Sarangpur in Bulandshahar district in Uttar Pradesh in the family of a Hindu Jat of Sejwar Gotra. His father was Late Shri Hukam Singh, a mukhiya of the village.He joined Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication after superannuation from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi in year 2000. He has been actively engaged in the administrative, educational and research activities of the Surajmal Memorial Education Society under the guidance of Shri Ram Niwas Mirdha since 1976 as Joint Secretary of Executive Committee and Secretary Academic Committee since 1985 till date.

Is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally descri

Is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in “comparative literature” but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments. His thinking places him at the intersection of Neo-Platonism and Neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, as well as what he regarded the impatient accelerations and even absurdities of modernity and post-modernity. He chose early on to write within the intellectual horizons outlined by Goethe and Leibniz and continued to do so throughout his life.

Was a Puerto Rican poet, an educator, politician and businessman. He is considered by many to be one

Was a Puerto Rican poet, an educator, politician and businessman. He is considered by many to be one of Puerto Rico's greatest representatives of the modern literary era.Dávila was influenced by the literary collection of his parents, both of whom were teachers, at an early age. He attended private schools were he received both his primary and secondary education. Dávila earned his Bachelors degree from the Civil Institute of Higher Learning in 1895. He taught school in the town of Gurabo.

Was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.Among his most famous poems a

Was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" (1943), and "La gran puta" (1960). He was a member of the Origenes literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group. In the late 1950s he co-founded the literary journal Ciclón.

Was a Guatemalan lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer.

Was a Guatemalan lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer.

Was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, and diplomat who won various international and national prizes.

Was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, and diplomat who won various international and national prizes. As a novelist he is noted for intergrating his deep knowledge of Meso American and Guatemalan history and geography into his stories, often setting his novels in colorful Guatemalan jungle settings including its biologically rich flora and fauna.

Was an award-winning author of children's books.

Was an award-winning author of children's books.

Is a Colombian writer, media personality, socialite and television anchorwoman,[1] born August 26, 1

Is a Colombian writer, media personality, socialite and television anchorwoman,[1] born August 26, 1949 in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, who lost her career in television after her five-year (1983-1987) romantic relationship with Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín Cartel. In September 2007, she published Amando a Pablo, Odiando a Escobar (Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar, 2010).

Is a renowned Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv, Union of

Is a renowned Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radekhiv, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (in what is now the country of Ukraine), the only child of Petro (Peter) and Lydia Baley. Before he had celebrated his first bir

Is a famous poet and figure in Malayalam literature.Vishnunarayanan was born in Cheeravally Illam in

Is a famous poet and figure in Malayalam literature.Vishnunarayanan was born in Cheeravally Illam in Thiruvala. He acquired a Master's degree in English. He was an English teacher at colleges in Kozhikode, Kollam, Pattambi, Ernakulam, Tripunithura, Chitto

Was an eminent Marathi writer of India.In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a s

Was an eminent Marathi writer of India.In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a small town, Shirode, in the present-day Sindhudurg district of the Konkan region in Maharashtra. He worked in that school until 1938. While working as a teacher, Khandekar produced in his spare time abundant Marathi literature in various forms. In his lifetime, he wrote sixteen novels, six plays, around 250 short stories, 50 allegorical stories, 100 essays, and over 200 critiques. His generation of writers was much influenced by Haribhau Apte.

Was an eminent Marathi poet, writer and humanist in India. He was born in and spent most of his life

Was an eminent Marathi poet, writer and humanist in India. He was born in and spent most of his life in the city of Nasik in Maharashtra, India.At his age 20, Shirwadkar participated in a nonviolent resistance march --satyagraha-- in support of compelling Brahmin priests in charge of a local prominent temple in Nasik to provide free access to the temple to people who belonged to the suppressed "untouchable" (Harijan) community. In the past, the priests had not allowed free temple access to that community under the Hindu caste system, which used to be observed much more vigorously then in India. Throughout his life, he either participated in or led many movements in Nasik to counter social or political injustice of some or other kind. In 1950, he founded in Nasik an Organization for Social Good --Lokahitawadi Mandal. While temperamentally he ranged from reclusive to exclusive, he had a keen social sense and championed the cause of the downtrodden without jumping himself into ground level activities. But his main claim to fame was his genius as a poet and writer.

Was a Greek Orthodox monk of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece. He became a mo

Was a Greek Orthodox monk of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece. He became a monk in his teen years and regarded, from those who knew him, as an especially good-hearted cleric with humanitarian spirit.

Was a Russian composer. His parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk.

Was a Russian composer. His parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when following the advice of his professor went to Moscow to show his first compositions to Glière and Myaskovsky

Popularly known as the Kavi Samraat (Emperor of Poetry), was a modern Telugu poet.He was a disciple

Popularly known as the Kavi Samraat (Emperor of Poetry), was a modern Telugu poet.He was a disciple of the Tirupati Venkata Kavulu duo. Viswanatha's style of poetry was classical in nature and his popular works include Ramayana Kalpa Vrikshamu (A resourceful tree called Ramayana), Kinnersani patalu (Mermaid songs) and Veyipadagalu (The Thousand Hoods).

Was a Bosnian-Croat prose writer and pedagogue, considered to be one of the greatest writers to emer

Was a Bosnian-Croat prose writer and pedagogue, considered to be one of the greatest writers to emerge from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century.

Is a musician, singer, composer and writer from Brazil.

Is a musician, singer, composer and writer from Brazil.

Was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry. She was the 7th child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina

Was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry. She was the 7th child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina Pacini, lots of Italian celebrities, such as Andrea Maffei or Antonio Fogazzaro, visited their home when she was a child.