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Dmitri Nabokov was the only son of the Russian-born American novelist Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, VĂ©ra Evseyevna Slonim.1
Following the death of his mother in 1991, Dmitri became responsible for his father's unfinished final novel, The Original of Laura, which had been kept in a Swiss bank vault despite Vladimir Nabokov's deathbed request that the work be destroyed. In 2008, Dmitri announced his decision to allow the publication of the manuscript, which was subsequently released in 2009. He described the work as the most concentrated distillation of his father's creativity.1