Nabokov

GPTKB entity

Statements (53)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Author
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Bollingen_Prize
gptkb:Formentor_Prize
gptkb:Guggenheim_Fellowship
gptkb:National_Book_Award
gptkbp:birth_date 1899-04-22
gptkbp:child gptkb:Nina_Nabokov
gptkb:Dmitri_Nabokov_Jr.
gptkbp:death_date 1977-07-02
gptkbp:education gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:famous_for Metafiction
Wordplay
Complex narrative style
Themes of memory and identity
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
gptkb:memoir
gptkb:short_story
Literary fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Nabokov
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:David_Foster_Wallace
gptkb:Ian_Mc_Ewan
gptkb:Haruki_Murakami
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Fyodor_Dostoevsky
gptkbp:language gptkb:Russian
English
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:notable_quote “ I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
“ The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
“ We loved each other with a premature love.”
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Lolita
gptkb:Ada_or_Ardor
gptkb:Pale_Fire
gptkb:Speak,_Memory
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:anarchism
gptkb:poet
gptkb:Novelist
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Saint_Petersburg
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Montreux
gptkbp:residence gptkb:France
gptkb:Germany
gptkb:Switzerland
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Vera_Nabokov
gptkbp:website www.nabokovonline.com
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Wind-Up_Bird_and_Tuesday's_Women
gptkb:The_Wind-Up_Bird_Chronicle
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5