Person:Vita Sackville-West (1)

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Vita Sackville-West
b.9 Mar 1892
d.2 Jun 1962
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Name Vita Sackville-West
Gender Female
Birth[1] 9 Mar 1892
Death[1] 2 Jun 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 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 , by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.

She had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946–1961) and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vita Sackville-West, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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