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Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova (née Slonim, Russian: Ве́ра Евсе́евна Набо́кова; 5 January 1902 – 7 April 1991) was the wife, editor, and translator of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, and a source of inspiration for many of his works.
Mar 5, 2021 · Long before most of her husband’s readers, Véra Nabokov understood the novel’s title character not as a nymph but as a tragic heroine.
Jun 28, 2018 · In Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Stacey Schiff characterizes this destruction a question of “merit”: “His words, even his private ones, had a value for posterity. She felt strongly that hers did not.”
- Miranda Popkey
Nov 8, 2015 · Véra and Vladimir Nabokov were married for fifty-two years—a record, apparently, among literary couples—and their intimacy was nearly hermetic. When they were apart, he pined for her...
Nov 4, 2015 · The following is from Letters to Vera, a collection of letters from Vladimir Nabokov to his wife. Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia and married Vera Slonim in 1925.
Apr 8, 2014 · Twenty-three years after her death, Vera Nabokov remains a revered figure in capital “L” Literature—not necessarily for her own work, but for devoting herself fully to that of her husband,...
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Odd as it may seem, Véra Evseyevna Nabokov, née Slonim—the love of the author’s life from 1923 until his death in 1977—lies behind the portrait of Liza. Véra had those luminous light blue eyes, those fine feline lines when she smiled, that snow-and-rose complexion, but not Liza’s brown hair or thick ankles, and not a trace of her vulgarity.
