Vladimir Nabokov Biography

Vladimir Nabokov biography

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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
OCCUPATION: Literary Critic, Journalist, Author, Poet
BIRTH DATE: April 22, 1899
DEATH DATE: July 02, 1977
EDUCATION: Trinity College, Cambridge

PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Petersburg, Russia
PLACE OF DEATH: Montreux, Switzerland

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Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian novelist and critic known for the intricate literary devices employed in such novels as Lolita.

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Vladimir Nabokov’s first novel, Mashenka, appeared in 1926, but it wasn’t until the publication of Lolita in 1955 that he had any success. Lolita was a landmark in both storytelling and controversy and was later made into a film by Stanley Kubrick. Nabokov's major critical works are an irreverent book about Nikolay Gogol and a four-volume translation of, and commentary on, Eugene Onegin.