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Vladimir Nabokov
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April 23, 1899
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| died |
July 02, 1977 |
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction
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| influences |
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about this author
Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to lepidoptery and had an interest in chess problems.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, and is at any rate his most widely known one, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works.
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