Who is Nabolkoff, from the Police song, "Don't Stand So Close To Me"?

Question

What Sting just trying to show off how literate he was? Who is "the old man in that book by Nabokolf (I probabaly spelled it wrong)".What is the book? Thanks.

Answer 1

It is VLADIMIR NABOKOV- and the book is LOLITA-

Born: April 1899
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 2 July 1977
Best Known As: Author of the novel Lolita

He was a Russian-born twentieth-century American writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita a satirical look at an aging professor's obsession with a twelve-year-old nymphet, was so controversial that it went unpublished in America for three years after it was first presented in France in 1955. Nabokov left his native Russia after the 1917 revolution that overthrew Nicholas II, then lived in England and Germany before moving to the United States in the 1940s. A poet, translator, novelist and internationally recognized lepidopterist (butterfly expert), Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 until 1959. Lolita created a firestorm of criticism due to its subject matter: "the affair between a middle-aged sexual pervert and a twelve-year-old girl" is how The Atlantic Monthly described it in a favorable 1958 review. The novel's obsessive protagonist, Humbert Humbert, and the manipulative nymph Lolita have become famous characters in 20th-century literature. The financial success of Lolita allowed Nabokov to devote his time to writing, and he settled in Switzerland, where he continued to write novels and study butterflies.

Answer 2

Just like the old man in
That famous book by Nabakov.
Nabakov is a Russian author and poet. No idea who the old man is. Nabakov wrote many, many books.

Answer 3

Vladimir Nabokov wrote a book called "Lolita.", about an older man obsessed with a young girl.