Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West (Kent, 1892-1962) wrote poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, and travel books. She was part with her husband, the diplomat and editor Harold Nicolson, of the well-known Bloomsbury group. Her tempestuous love life and her relationship with Virginia Woolf, of whose Orlando she was both inspiration and recipient, have increased her posthumous fame as a passionate nonconformist woman. Out of her extensive work, Los Edwardianos (1930) or All Passion Off (1931) can be highlighted. Sackville-West has been the only poet to receive the prestigious Hawthornden Prize twice.