Vladimir Nabokov

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1899. April 22.
  • Place of birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-born multilingual novelist, poet, translator, critic and entomologist considered the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian while living in Berlin. He achieve...

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