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Orlando, a novel by English author Virginia Woolf was published in 1928 and is a fictional biography of the immortal Orlando who begins life as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England and later transforms into a woman. The novel is a satirical examination of gender roles and a commentary on the fluidity of identity. Woolf wrote Orlando as a love letter to her lover, Vita Sackville-West, and the novel is considered a landmark work of queer literature. A well-regarded film adaptation directed by Sally Potter with Tilda Swinton portraying Orlando was released in 1992. 

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