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.
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1930 kaufte die Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West mit ihrem Ehemann Harold Nicolson die Ruine von Schloss Sissinghurst in Kent, um dort einen Garten zu erschaffen. Heute bewundern jährlich 160.000 Menschen ihr Lebenswerk: Wie der Garten entstand, nach... SEE MORE