When asked whether he felt "any strong sense of national identity", Vladimir Nabokov replied "I am an American writer, born in Russia and educated in England where I studied French literature, before spending 15 years in Germany."
(My own note: After 15 years in Germany, he spent some time in France before moving to the US. Then he lived in the US for a while and later moved to Switzerland and stayed there till the end of his life. And, needless to say, he's a native speaker of Russian and wrote perfectly in 2 other languages, English and French).
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