Ivan Bunin

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Ivan Bunin

Born

22 October 1870 Voronezh, Russian Empire 8 November 1953 (aged 83) Paris, France Russian fiction, poetry, memoirs, criticism, translations The Village The Life of Arseniev Cursed Days Nobel Prize in Literature 1933

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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russian: , IPA: [van lksejvt bunn] ( listen); 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. Best known for his short novels The Village (1910) and Dry Valley (1912), his autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev (1933, 1939), the book of short stories Dark Avenues (1946) and his 19171918 diary (Cursed Days, 1926), Bunin was a revered figure among anti-communist White emigres, European critics, and many of his fellow writers, who viewed him as a true heir to the tradition of realism in Russian literature established by Tolstoy and Chekhov.

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1 Biography o 1.1 Early life o 1.2 Literary career o 1.3 19001909 o 1.4 19101920 o 1.5 Emigration o 1.6 The war years o 1.7 Ivan Bunin's last years 2 Legacy 3 Private life 4 Bibliography o 4.1 Novel o 4.2 Short novels o 4.3 Short story collections o 4.4 Poetry 4.4.1 Translations o 4.5 Memoirs and diaries 5 Additional reading 6 References 7 External links

Biography

Early life

Ivan Bunin was born on his parental estate in Voronezh province in Central Russia, the third and youngest son of Aleksey Nikolayevich Bunin (18271906) and Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bunina (ne Chubarova, 18351910). He had two younger sisters: Masha[1] and Nadya (the latter died very young).[2][3] Having come from a long line of rural gentry with a distinguished ancestry including Polish roots, Bunin was especially proud that poets Anna Bunina (17741829) and Vasily Zhukovsky (17831852) were among his ancestors. He wrote in his 1952 autobiography: I come from an old and noble house that has given Russia a good many illustrious persons in politics as well as in the arts, among whom two poets of the early nineteenth century stand out in particular: Anna Bnina and Vasly Zhukovsky, one of the great names in Russian literature, the son of Athanase Bunin and the Turk Salma.[4]