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Vita Sackville-West

1892 - 1962

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Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vita Sackville-West is the 1,680th most popular writer (down from 1,474th in 2019), the 1,513th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,132nd in 2019) and the 162nd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Vita Sackville-West ranks 1,680 out of 7,302. Before her are Thoinot Arbeau, Notker the Stammerer, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Dean Koontz, James Oliver Curwood, and Akiyuki Nosaka. After her are Varro Atacinus, Lina Kostenko, Ahmed Shawqi, Gil Vicente, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and Ryū Murakami.

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Among people born in 1892, Vita Sackville-West ranks 86. Before her are Josyf Slipyj, Stanisław Sosabowski, Walther Nehring, Thomas Mitchell, Arnold Hauser, and Guo Moruo. After her are Konstantin Paustovsky, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Basil Rathbone, Dietrich von Saucken, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., and Erich Brandenberger. Among people deceased in 1962, Vita Sackville-West ranks 53. Before her are Aleksei Antonov, Princess Helen of Serbia, Natalia Sedova, Hu Shih, Frank Borzage, and Thomas Mitchell. After her are Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, Lei Feng, Albert Sarraut, Frederick Schule, Emil Artin, and Wilhelm Ackermann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Vita Sackville-West ranks 1,513 out of 8,785. Before her are Helen McCrory (1968), Maurice Wilkes (1913), John Wilkins (1614), Arnold Jackson (1891), Gildas (500), and Steve McQueen (1969). After her are Peter Green (1946), Clarke Abel (1780), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), Andy Summers (1942), and Susan Boyle (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Vita Sackville-West ranks 162. Before her are Mary Berry (1935), John Mandeville (1300), Constance Lloyd (1858), Michael Moorcock (1939), John Gay (1685), and Malcolm Lowry (1909). After her are Karen Armstrong (1944), Robert Harris (1957), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Edward Lear (1812), and Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838).

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