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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher and semiotician whose erudite fiction joins historical mystery with questions about language, interpretation and the stories people choose to believe.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

American author of science fiction and fantasy whose imagined societies test ideas about power, gender, freedom and responsibility. Her work includes the Earthsea books and the Hainish novels.

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Victor Hugo

French Romantic poet, playwright and novelist (1802–1885), author of Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. Exiled under Napoleon III, he wrote about poverty, justice and mercy.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Vietnamese American novelist, essayist and literary scholar whose fiction examines war, displacement, memory and divided loyalties. He won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer.

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Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins is an American journalist and author of political nonfiction about Cold War violence, mass protest and the global consequences of power.

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Vincent Delecroix is a French philosopher and novelist, a Kierkegaard specialist at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. His fiction explores existential questions with a philosopher's precision and a novelist's ear for voice.

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Vincenzo Latronico

Italian novelist, translator and art critic born in Rome in 1984 and based in Milan. His short, precise novel Perfection, about expatriate millennials in Berlin, was shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

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Virgil

Roman poet (70–19 BC) who wrote the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the Latin epic of Aeneas fleeing Troy to found a new home in Italy. Dante made him his guide through hell and purgatory.

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Virginia Woolf

English modernist novelist and essayist, born in London in 1882. Woolf wrote fiction built on shifting consciousness, among it Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and the feminist essay A Room of One's Own.

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W. G. Sebald

German-born writer and academic W. G. Sebald wrote haunting prose narratives about memory, exile, loss and Europe’s buried histories, often blending fiction, travel, biography and photographs.

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Walter Isaacson

American biographer, historian and former media executive who writes about innovators and the meeting point of science, technology and the humanities.

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