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  1. Dmitri Nabokov was born on May 10, 1934, in Berlin.He was the only child of Vladimir Nabokov and Véra Slonim Nabokov.Due to Nazi Germany's growing political and social repression, and the likelihood that the regime might target the family (his mother was Jewish), the family fled to Paris in 1937. With the Germans advancing into France, they emigrated to New York City by ship in 1940.

  2. Feb 25, 2012 · Dmitri Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, who tended to the legacy of his father with the posthumous publication of a volume of personal letters, an unpublished novella and an unfinished novel ...

  3. May 10, 2013 · Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of Vladimir Nabokov and Véra Nabokov (nee Slonim), died 22 February, 2012, in Vevey, Switzerland, at the age of 77. Dmitri Nabokov was a person of many gifts and ...

  4. Jul 20, 2012 · Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, died in Switzerland in the first hours of Thursday, Feb. 23. Like his father, Dmitri went — in the words of one of his attendants ...

  5. Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (born May 10 1934) is an American opera singer and translator. He is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov, and is currently executor of his father's literary estate. Dmitri Nabokov was born on May 10, 1934, in Berlin, to Vladimir Nabokov and Vera Slonim Nabokova.

  6. By Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz Please contact me with suggestions and corrections. Another rich chronology, focusing on the exact locations Nabokov stayed or worked at, and reproducing photographs (contemporary where available) and maps of these areas, is available at the Nabokov's Whereabouts page of Dieter E. Zimmer's splendid website.

  7. Feb 26, 2012 · Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov who helped protect and translate his father's work while pursuing careers as an opera singer and race car driver, has died.

  8. Mar 2, 2012 · F ifty five minutes before he died, on 23 February 2012, I spoke to Dmitri Nabokov – opera singer, translator and Vladimir Nabokov's son – for the last time. Moments before, I had received a ...

  9. May 4, 2008 · BEFORE Vladimir Nabokov, the author of “Lolita,” “Pale Fire,” “Speak, Memory” and other masterworks, died in Lausanne, Switzerland, in July 1977, he had been hard at work on another novel.

  10. Nabokov, Dmitri (1934-2012), the only child and heir of Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, opera basso profundo, racing car driver, Ferrari collector, playboy, and mountain climber, was the major translator and editor of his father’s work and defender of his reputation. He was active as a translator of his father’s work into English, first under VN’s supervision, then Véra’s, and then on his ...