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Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) 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 thirteen novels during her lifetime. 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 . She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.