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PNIN (191 pp.) -Vladimir Nabokov-Doubleday...
...NICOLAS NABOKOV...
...festival directors thought of performing any Russian music? Director Nicholas Nabokov, Russian-born citizen of the U.S., answered with a story that epitomized the whole point of the festival. Nabokov wanted to present part of Dimitri Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Minsk, the story of a murderous hussy of Czarist days who winds up in Siberia. But the Kremlin had banned Lady Macbeth in 1937, and for that reason Nabokov ran into trouble with his project. Even though the opera was performed at the Metropolitan in 1935, there was no score available in the U.S. Nabokov cabled Artur...
Miss Rich, who won the Yale poetry award while an undergraduate, was the only woman listed among the nine recipients from the University scene. Both Richard P. Wilbur, assistant professor of English, and Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer in Slavic and Comparative Literature, also received Guggenheim Awards for a year's work in creative writing...
Author of seven novels and numerous short stories, Nabokov worked as a freelance writer and lecturer in England, Germany and France before coming to the United States...