Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and lepidopterist born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family, who became trilingual in Russian, English, and French from childhood. After the Russian Revolution, his family emigrated to Western Europe, where he wrote nine novels in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin, before moving to the United States in 1940, achieving international fame with English works like Lolita (1955). He taught at Cornell University until 1959 and later settled in Montreux, Switzerland.

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