This author created the Italian Turati, against whom an elaborate chess strategy is planned by Luzhin, in The Defense. One novel by this author is constructed as a commentary by Charles Kinbote, and another of his unreliable narrators contemplates killing his wife Charlotte. The King of Zembla is a 
This author created the Italian Turati, against whom an elaborate chess strategy is planned by Luzhin, in The Defense. One novel by this author is constructed as a commentary by Charles Kinbote, and another of his unreliable narrators contemplates killing his wife Charlotte. The King of Zembla is a nonexistent position in his novel about John Shade's 999-line title poem, Pale Fire. Clare Quilty dies in this man's novel about Humbert Humbert, who describes his relationship with Dolores Haze, a "nymphet". For 10 points, name this Russian-born author of Lolita.
This author created the Italian Turati, against whom an elaborate chess strategy is planned by Luzhin, in The Defense.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov [accept V. Sirin]