Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: ´ ´ ´, pronounced ; 22 April 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.. multilingual Russian novelist poet and short story writer