Vladimir Nabokov Writer

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (/nəˈbɔːkəf, ˈnæbəˌkɔːf, -ˌkɒf/; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr nɐˈbokəf] (13px ), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel, and often considered his finest work in English. It exhibits the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory, was listed eighth on the Modern Library nonfiction list. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times, but never won it.

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Birth date	April 22, 1899
Birth name	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Birth place	Russian Empire , Saint Petersburg
Date of death	July 02, 1977
Place of death	Montreux
Spouse	Véra Nabokov
Children	Dmitri Nabokov

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influenced	David Cronenberg John Updike Stanley Kubrick Thomas Pynchon Zadie Smith Daniel Clowes Victor Pelevin John Banville Joanna Newsom Anthony Burgess Gene Wolfe Jhumpa Lahiri Javier Marías Daniel Handler Don DeLillo Jeffrey Eugenides Martin Amis Michael Chabon Nick Cave Christopher Hitchens Terence McKenna Oğuz Atay Edmund Yeo Richard Rorty
influenced by	Anton Chekhov Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe Franz Kafka Gustave Flaubert James Joyce Jules Verne Marcel Proust Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander Pushkin Robert Browning Arthur Conan Doyle Nikolai Gogol Mikhail Lermontov Leo Tolstoy Thomas Mayne Reid
movement	Literary modernism Postmodern literature
notable work	Pale Fire The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Lolita Speak Memory The Defense