Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist and poet
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian... Wikipedia
Born: April 22, 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: July 2, 1977 (age 78 years), Montreux, Switzerland
Short stories: Signs and Symbols, Orache, The Aurelian, and more
Influenced by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, and more
Spouse: Véra Nabokov (m. 1925–1977)
Children: Dmitri Nabokov
Books