"What sport is featured in ""The Defense"", a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1930?"
Vladimir Nabokov the National Book Award for Fiction seven times. Nabokov was an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems. Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 (10 April 1899 Old Style), in Saint Petersburg, to a wealthy and prominent family of the Russian nobility, which traced its roots back to a fourteenth-century Tatar prince, Nabok Murza, who entered into the service of the Tsars, and from whom the family name is derived. His father was the liberal lawyer, statesman, and journalist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1870–1922) and his mother was the heiress Yelena Ivanovna "née" Rukavishnikova, the granddaughter of a millionaire gold-mine
The Defense The Defense The Luzhin Defense is the third novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during his emigration to Berlin, published in 1930. The novel appeared first under Nabokov's pen name V. Sirin in the Russian emigre quarterly "Sovremennye Zapiski" and was thereafter published by the emigre publishing house Slovo as "Защита Лужина" (The Luzhin Defense) in Berlin. More than three decades later the novel was translated into English by Michael Scammell in collaboration with Nabokov and appeared in 1964. In the foreword to the English edition Nabokov states that he wrote "The Defense" in 1929 while he vacationed in Le Boulou