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The Hon. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer. A successful and prolific novelist and poet —she was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature. SheMoreThe Hon. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer. A successful and prolific novelist and poet —she was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature. She is also remembered as the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of the Orlando: A Biography by her famous friend and admirer, Virginia Woolf, with whom she had a brief affair.