Translated to Arabic, «The Real Life of Sebastian Knight» a 1941 novel, by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899- 1977). This was Nabokov 1st major work in English. In the story the narrator is composing a biography of his half-brother, the Russian-born English novelist Sebastian Knight (1899-1936). In the end the novel is more about narrator's quest to research and write the biography than the actual life of the elusive Sebastian Knight. Translated to Arabic by Hanan Yamaq.