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Vladimir Nabokov

1899 - 1977

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife, Véra Nabokov. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Trilingual in Russian, English, and French, Nabokov became a U.S. citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the East Coast before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in Montreux, Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Nabokov is the 148th most popular writer (down from 125th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Russia (down from 41st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Writer.

Vladimir Nabokov is most famous for his novel Lolita, which tells the story of a middle-aged man's sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vladimir Nabokov ranks 148 out of 7,302. Before him are Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cato the Elder, and Cyrano de Bergerac. After him are Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, Emily Brontë, Carlo Collodi, Plautus, and Yasunari Kawabata.

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Among people born in 1899, Vladimir Nabokov ranks 8. Before him are Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Alfred Hitchcock, Frederick IX of Denmark, Al Capone, and Lavrentiy Beria. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, Friedrich Hayek, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Humphrey Bogart, Macfarlane Burnet, and Francis Poulenc. Among people deceased in 1977, Vladimir Nabokov ranks 5. Before him are Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, Maria Callas, and Edgar Adrian. After him are Stefania Turkewich, Wernher von Braun, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, and René Goscinny.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov ranks 48 out of 3,761. Before him are Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Boris Pasternak (1890), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), and Modest Mussorgsky (1839). After him are Alexander Nevsky (1220), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), and Georgy Malenkov (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov ranks 11. Before him are Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), and E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776). After him are Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), and Joseph Brodsky (1940).

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