VN and Véra leave the U.S. for Switzerland and settle in the Montreux Palace.
Publication of VN’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign (New York: Random House).

1962

Publication of Pale Fire (New York: Putnam).
The release of Stanley Kubrick’s film version of Lolita, starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, and Sue Lyon. VN makes the cover of Newsweek.

1964

Publication of VN’s translation with commentary of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press/Bollingen Foundation).

1967

Publication of Speak, Memory (New York: Putnam).
Publication of the first important critical works on Nabokov: Page Stegner’s Escape into Aesthetics and Andrew Field’s Nabokov, His Life in Art.

1969

Publication of Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (New York: McGraw-Hill). Nabokov makes the cover of Time.

1971

Publication of Poems and Problems (39 poems in Russian and English, 14 poems in English, 18 chess problems) (New York: McGraw-Hill).

1972

Publication of Transparent Things (New York: McGraw-Hill).

1973

Publication of A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (13 stories, some translated from the Russian, some written directly in English) (New York: McGraw-Hill).
Publication of Strong Opinions (interviews, criticism, essays, letters) (New York: McGraw-Hill). (Follow this link for an Index to Strong Opinions.)

1974

Publication of Lolita: A Screenplay, not used by Kubrick for the film (New York: McGraw-Hill).
Publication of Look at the Harlequins (New York: McGraw-Hill).

1975

Publication of Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (14 stories, some from the Russian, some written in English) (New York: McGraw-Hill).

1976

Publication of Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (13 stories, translated from the Russian) (New York: McGraw-Hill).

1977

Nabokov dies July 2 in Lausanne. He is buried in Clarens, beneath a tombstone that reads "Vladimir Nabokov, écrivain." (A photograph of his grave by Gennady Barabtarlo.)

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, ed. Simon Karlinsky. New York: Harper & Row. (Follow this link for an Index to the English and comprehensive German editions of the Nabokov-Wilson correspondence.)
Stikhi (222 poems composed in Russian from 1917-1974). Ann Arbor: Ardis.

1980

Lectures on Literature, ed. Fredson Bowers (10 courses and essays on European writers). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark.

1981

Lectures on Russian Literature, ed. Fredson Bowers (22 courses and essays on Russian writers). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark.

1983

Lectures on Don Quixote, ed. Fredson Bowers (22 courses on Cervantes). San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark.

1984

The Man from the USSR and Other Plays, ed. Dmitri Nabokov (4 plays translated from the Russian, 2 essays). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark.

1985

Perepiska s sestroi (correspondence with his sister dating from 1930-1974). Ann Arbor: Ardis.

1986

The Enchanter, translated by Dmitri Nabokov. New York: Putnam. (Original title: Volshebnik)

1989

Selected Letters, 1940-1977, ed. Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Bruccoli. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark.
Jugendwerke 1921-1924 (14 stories translated from the Russian) in Erzählungen I, Gesammelte Werke, ed. Dieter E. Zimmer. Reinbek: Rowohlt. (Published in French in 1990 as La Vénitienne et autres nouvelles.)

1995

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Knopf.