Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich ( 1899 – 1977 ),Russian novelist, poet, and literary scholar. The son of a leading member of the Cadet party and of the Kerensky government, Nabokov had published only a small volume of poetry when his family left Russia for Germany in 1919 . After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge ( 1919 – 23 ), Nabokov lived in Berlin ( 1923 – 37 ) and Paris ( 1937 – 40 ), writing mainly in Russian, under the pseudonym ‘Sirin’. In 1940 he moved to the USA, working as a lecturer at Wellesley College ( 1941 – 8 ) and as professor of Russian literature at Cornell University ( 1948 – 59 ). From then on all his novels were written in English. The outstanding success of his novel Lolita (USA, 1958 ) enabled him to give up teaching and devote himself fully to writing. From 1959 he lived in Montreux, in Switzerland, where he...
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