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Vladimir Nabokov

Died in 1977

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born on 22 April 1899 in Saint Petersburg into a noble family, the son of a jurist and liberal politician, left Russia in 1919 and studied Romance and Slavic languages at Cambridge. Settled in Berlin, he published his Russian novels under the pseudonym V. Sirin, then moved to Paris in 1937 and to the United States in 1940. He taught at Wellesley and then at Cornell and worked on butterflies at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in Montreux on 2 July 1977.

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