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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer, poet and translator, and the laureate of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was born into a family descended from an impoverished noble line in Voronezh. The family then moved to the Ozerki estate in the Oryol Governorate (now Lipetsk Oblast), where Bunin lived until he was eleven, after which he enrolled in the Yelets district gymnasium. In 1885 he returned to Voronezh and completed his education under the guidance of his elder brother Yuly.
His literary path began with the publication of his first poems in 1888. In 1889 Bunin moved to Oryol and took a position as a proofreader at the newspaper 'Orlovsky Vestnik'. In 1891, in the supplement to 'Orlovsky Vestnik', Bunin published his first poetry collection 'Poems. 1887–1891'.
He gained wide recognition in 1900 after the release of the short story 'The Antonov Apples'. In 1901, for the collection of poems 'Listopad' and his translation of Longfellow's poem 'The Song of Hiawatha', Bunin was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1909 he became an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of belles-lettres.
After the October Revolution Bunin emigrated to France and during those years kept a diary called 'Cursed Days', which was later partly lost. In 1933 he became the first Russian writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ivan Alekseyevich died on 8 November 1953 in Paris and was buried at the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery.
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Date of birth
22 October 1870
Date of death
08 November 1953
Occupation
Writer