Набоков, Владимир Владимирович

Author

Born St. Petersburg, 22 April 1899

Died Montreux, 2 July 1977

Nabokov also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were written in Russian (1926–38), but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945.

1923

1987

1994

2001