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  • An undated photo of Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov
    An undated photo of Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov
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An undated photo of Russian-born American writer Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov's Biography

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков, pronounced [vlɐdʲiˈmʲɪr nɐboˈkəf]; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.

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  • News Source: The Guardian | 2 days ago
    a handsome piece of book-making, but hardly a real book." "It seems likely that, had Nabokov finished it, The Original of Laura would indeed have been an important work, if not necessarily a masterpiece," William Skidelsky wrote in the Observer. "
  • News Source: Bookforum | 4 days ago
    An essay is an act of imagination — it still takes quite as much art as fiction: Suffering from "novel nausea", Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promise. From The American Scholar , Bob Thompson on covering the " book beat " and how
  • News Source: The Guardian | 5 days ago
    the nation is in the grip of Naboko-fever. You can't open a newspaper , switch on the radio , or click open a Guardian blog without stumbling across a reference to the late great Vladimir Nabokov (see what I mean?).

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  • Blog Source: www.3quarksdaily.com | 1 day ago
    Certainly all the work of a great writer like Vladimir Nabokov ought to be available to scholars and interested readers. To my mind, Dmitri Nabokov was clearly right to ignore his dying father's request that he destroy these fragments ...
  • Blog Source: www.quotiki.com | 1 day ago
    And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night, is the most adequate and ever-present s.
  • Blog Source: www.complete-review.com | 1 day ago
    Links to reviews of and other information about The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov.

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