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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
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Vladimir Nabokov (68)
Birth: | 22nd April, 1899 |
Death: | 2nd July, 1977 |
Nationality: | American, Russian |
Profession: | Novelist, Professor |
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian American 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.
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