Vita Sackville-West

**Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson**, CH (), biasanya dikenal sebagai **Vita&nbsp;Sackville-West**, adalah seorang penulis Inggris dan desainer taman.

Dia adalah seorang novelis, penyair, dan jurnalis yang sukses, serta penulis surat dan penulis buku harian yang produktif. Dia menerbitkan lebih dari selusin koleksi puisi selama hidupnya dan 13 novel. Dia dua kali dianugerahi Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: pada tahun 1927 untuk epik pastoralnya, *[[The Land (Poem)|The Land]]*, dan pada tahun 1933 untuk *Collected Puisi*. Dia adalah inspirasi untuk protagonis dari **, oleh teman dan kekasihnya yang terkenal, Virginia Woolf.
 
Dia memiliki kolom lama di *[[The Observer]]* (1946–1961) dan dikenang karena taman terkenal di Sissinghurst yang dibuat bersama suaminya, Sir Harold Nicolson.

## Karya
### Puisi
* *Chatterton* (1909)
* *A Dancing Elf* (1912)
* *Constantinople: Eight Poems* (1915)
* *Poems of West and East* (1917)
* *Orchard and Vineyard* (1921)
* *[[The Land (Poem)|The Land]]* (1926)
* *King's Daughter* (1929)
* *Sissinghurst* (1931)
* *Invitation to Cast out Care* (1931)
* *Collected Poems: Volume 1* (1933)
* *Solitude* (1938)
* *The Garden* (1946)

### Novel
* *Heritage* (1919)
* *The Dragon in Shallow Waters* (1921)
* *The Heir* (1922)
* *Challenge* (1923)
* *Grey Wethers* (1923)
* *Seducers in Ecuador* (1924)
* *Passenger to Teheran* (1926)
* *[[The Edwardians]]* (1930)
* *[[All Passion Spent]]* (1931)
* *The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler* (1932)
* *Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour* (1932) - short stories
* *Family History* (1932)
* *The Dark Island* (1934)
* *Grand Canyon* (1942)
* *Devil at Westease* (1947)
* *The Easter Party* (1953)
* *No Signposts in the Sea* (1961)

### Buku anak

* *A Note of Explanation* (written for Queen Mary's Dolls' House in 1924, published posthumously in 2017)

### Terjemahan
* *Duineser Elegien: Elegies from the Castle of Duino*, by Rainer Maria Rilke trns. V. Sackville-West (Hogarth Press, London, 1931)

### Biografi dan non-fiksi
* "Aphra Behn: the Incomparable Astrea" (Gerald Howe 1927)
* *Passenger to Teheran* (Hogarth Press 1926, reprinted Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2007, )
* *Knole and the Sackvilles* (1922)
* *[[Saint Joan of Arc (Sackville-West)|Saint Joan of Arc]]* (Doubleday 1936, reprinted M. Joseph 1969)
* *English Country Houses* (William Collins, 1941, illustrated)
* *Pepita* (Doubleday, 1937, reprinted Hogarth Press 1970)
* *The Eagle and The Dove* (M. Joseph 1943)
* *Twelve Days: an account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains of South-western Persia* (first published UK 1927; Doubleday Doran 1928; M. Haag 1987, reprinted Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2009 as *Twelve Days in Persia*)
* *Country Notes in Wartime*, 1940, (The Hogarth Press)

## Referensi

## Sumber
* Carney, Michael: *Stoker: The Life of Hilda Matheson*, privately published, Llangynog, 1999
* Ghanī, Sīrūs & Ghani, Cyrus: *Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power*, London: .B.Tauris, 2000
* Glendinning, Victoria: *Vita. A Biography of Vita Sackville-West*, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983
* Glendinning, Victoria: *Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West*, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983
* Lord, Tony (2000). Gardening at Sissinghurst. Frances Lincoln & National Trust.
* Nicolson, Nigel: "Introduction" from *A Passenger to Tehran*, London: I.B Tauris, 2007
* Sackville-West, Vita: *Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings*, Preface by Nigel Nicolson, St. Martin's Press, 2015

## Daftar Pustaka
* Robert Cross and Ann Ravenscroft-Hulme: *Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography* (Oak Knoll Press, 1999); 
* Eberle, Iwona: *Eve with a Spade: Women, Gardens, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century* (Grin, 2011); 
* Peggy Wolf: *Sternenlieder und Grabgesänge. Vita Sackville-West: Eine kommentierte Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen von ihr und über sie 1930–2005.* (Daphne-Verlag, Göttingen, 2006); 

## Pranala luar
* Fuller list of Vita Sackville-West's publications
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* Sackville-West family tree on the National Portrait Gallery, London website
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