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I am very sad to hear that Dieter has passed away. He was one of the first admirers and commentators of Nabokov, one of the most dedicated scholars on his works, his biography,  his butterflies, plus a rigorous translator.

Dieter Zimmer (1934-2020): noble, wise, driven by truth-seeking, mercilessly attentive to detail, an intellectual of the highest carat, a man of honour, a writer from God.

In Memoriam Dieter E. Zimmer

To mark the occasion of Dieter E. Zimmer's passing away on June 19, 2020, Brian Boyd has translated into English Dieter's 1959 review of Lolita. 

Dear Nabokovians:

​Dieter Eduard Zimmer, essayist, editor, translator, an intellectually “incorruptible” “Renaissance man” (I quote from the German