Vladimir Nabokov

Born

April 22, 1899

Died

July 2, 1977 (aged 78)

Known as

novelist, poet, writer, zoologist, translator, playwright

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

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