Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language: Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

A Russian immigrant helped an Egyptian immigrant start writing in English. Then she found her own voice:

“To Nabokov, who probably would neither have approved of nor cared about my writing, I say this: thank you for opening this door through which I now walk.

Now, I make my own path.”