ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Vladimir Nabokov, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, (born April 22, 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia-died July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland), Russian-born American novelist and critic, the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nabokov is known as one of the leading prose stylists of the 20th century; his first writings were in Russian, but he achieved his greatest fame with the novels he wrote in English.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899 – 1977), Russian and American novelist, short-story writer, poet, translator, and lepidopterist was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family.

Detailed explanation-4: -Considered the ‘foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors’, he was known for his use of complex and original plots, and clever alliteration and wordplay. Nabokov’s Lolita is his most famous novel.