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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955), his most noted novel in English, was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times.
Nabokov, like his wife, his son and several characters in his novels, was a synesthete. He was also an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems.
Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 (10 April 1899 Old Style), in Saint Petersburg,b to a wealthy and prominent family of the Russian nobility. His father was the liberal lawyer, statesman, and journalist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1870–1922) and his mother was the heiress Yelena Ivanovna née Rukavishnikova, the granddaughter of a millionaire gold-mine owner. His father was a leader of the pre-Revolutionary liberal Constitutional Democratic Party and authored numerous books and articles about criminal law and politics. His cousins included the composer Nicolas Nabokov. His paternal grandfather, Dmitry Nabokov (1827–1904), had been Russia's Justice Minister in the reign of Alexander II. His paternal grandmother was the Baltic German Baroness Maria von Korff (1842–1926).
Vladimir was the family's eldest and favorite child, with four younger siblings: Sergey (1900–45); Olga (1903–78); Elena (1906–2000) and Kiril (1912–64). Sergey would be killed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, after he spoke out publicly denouncing Hitler's regime. Olga is recalled by Ayn Rand (her close friend at Stoiunina Gymnasium) as having been a supporter of constitutional monarchy who had first awakened Rand's interest in politics. The youngest daughter Elena, who would in later years become Vladimir's favourite sibling, published her correspondence with her brother in 1985 and would become an important living source for later biographers of Nabokov.
Nabokov spent his childhood and youth in Saint Petersburg and at the country estate Vyra near Siverskaya, to the south of the city. His childhood, which he had called "perfect" and "cosmopolitan," was remarkable in several ways. The family spoke Russian, English, and French in their household, and Nabokov was trilingual from an early age. He relates that the first English book his mother read to him was Misunderstood (1869) by Florence Montgomery. In fact, much to his patriotic father's chagrin, Nabokov could read and write in English before he could in Russian. In Speak, Memory Nabokov recalls numerous details of his privileged childhood, and his ability to recall in vivid detail memories of his past was a boon to him during his permanent exile, and it provided a theme that echoes from his first book Mary to later works such as Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. While the family was nominally Orthodox, they felt no religious fervor, and Vladimir was not forced to attend church after he lost interest. In 1916, Nabokov inherited the estate Rozhdestveno, next to Vyra, from his uncle Vasily Ivanovich Rukavishnikov ("Uncle Ruka" in Speak, Memory), but lost it in the October Revolution one year later; this was the only house he ever owned.
Nabokov's adolescence was also the period in which his first serious literary endeavors were made. In 1916, Nabokov had his first collection of poetry published, Stikhi ("Poems" , a collection of 68 Russian poems. At the time, Nabokov was attending Tenishev school in Saint Petersburg, where his literature teacher Vladimir Vasilievich Gippius had been critical toward his literary accomplishments. Some time after the publication of Stikhi, Zinaida Gippius, renowned poet and first cousin of Vladimir Gippius, told Nabokov's father at a social event, "Please tell your son that he will never be a writer."
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Vladimir Nabokov - Selected Poems (read by Christopher Lane)
Vladimir Nabokov - The Luzhin Defense (read by Mel Foster)
Vladimir Nabokov - L*olita (read by Jeremy Irons)
Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (read by Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld)
Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation To A Beheading (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Vladimir Nabokov - Laughter In The Dark (read by Luke Daniels)
Vladimir Nabokov - Ada, Or Ardor (read by Arthur Morey)
Vladimir Nabokov - The Stories Of Vladimir Nabokov (read by Arthur Morey)
Vladimir Nabokov - Despair (read by Christopher Lane)
Vladimir Nabokov - The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight (read by Luke Daniels)
Vladimir Nabokov - Mary (read by Christopher Lane)
Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister (read by Robert Blumenfeld)
Vladimir Nabokov - King, Queen, Knave (read by Christopher Lane)
Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift (read by Alexander Scourby)
Vladimir Nabokov - The Eye (read by Fred Stella)
Vladimir Nabokov - Transparent Things (read by Christopher Lane)
Vladimir Nabokov - The Enchanter (read by Christopher Lane)
Vladimir Nabokov - Glory (read by Luke Daniels)
Vladimir Nabokov - Look At The Harlequins! (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
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