William Edward Harney, more often known as Bill Harney, was an Australian outback writer whose work often featured the lives of the Northern Territories Aboriginal people. He lived a tough, uncompromising life, overcoming poverty and hardship whenever he could. He was born on the 18th April 1895 in Charters Towers, Queensland. His parents had emigrated from England and the education of their three children ...
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet, philosopher, playwright and translator who also acted as a literary critic. His work, up to around the 1920s, can be placed amongst that of prominent Russian Symbolist writers and artists. He was born on the 28th February 1866 in Moscow. He did well at school, graduating with a gold medal, and this earned him the right to ...
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian poet and playwright who also acted on stage and in films. He was also the editor of a literary journal called LEF. Prior to the 1917 Revolution he was part of the short-lived Russian Futurist movement. His work suggested that he was very much pro-Lenin and pro-Communist Party. He did, however, find himself at odds with their overbearing tendency ...
Viggo Stuckenberg was a Danish poet and novelist whose short life spanned the second half of the 19th century and the first few years of the 20th. As a young man he wrote in lyrical style, mostly portraying pastoral subjects. Later on he favoured the Expressionism and Realism movements in literature although critics have said that he could not truly be considered a part of those movements. He was ...
Wali Muhammad Wali was a South Asian classical Urdu poet who is known by a number of names including Wali Deccani, Wali Gujarati and Wali Aurangabadi, the latter name relating to his place of birth. He is considered to be the father of Urdu poetry, specifically because he was the first to compose the poetic form known as Ghazals using the Urdu language. This ancient poetic ...
