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"The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense - which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance." ** -- Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia into a wealth aristocratic family. He attended a Tenishev school and was fluent in Russian, English, and French. Mashen'ka (1926), the first of his novels, along with the following eight were written in Russian and published under a pen name: Vladimir Sirin.
He wrote his first English novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, in 1941. Nabokov completed Lolita, his most prominent and controversial novel, in 1955; he translated his work into Russian ten years later.
After the success of Lolita, Nabokov moved to Montreux, Switzerland where he died on July 2, 1977.
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