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Ivan Bunin

1870 - 1953

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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( BOO-neen or BOO-nin; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ ˈbunʲɪn] ; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. 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 1917–1918 diary (Cursed Days, 1926), Bunin was a revered figure among 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Bunin is the 488th most popular writer (up from 559th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Russia (up from 183rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Writer.

Ivan Bunin was a Russian writer who is most famous for his novel The Village.

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Among writers, Ivan Bunin ranks 488 out of 7,302. Before him are Edward Said, Comte de Lautréamont, José Martí, René Guénon, Romain Gary, and Joris-Karl Huysmans. After him are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Louise Glück, Phaedrus, Alfred Döblin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Arnold Bennett.

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Among people born in 1870, Ivan Bunin ranks 12. Before him are Franz Lehár, Jules Bordet, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Adolf Loos, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. After him are Miguel Primo de Rivera, Albert Fish, Karl Renner, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Sigfrid Edström, and Lavr Kornilov. Among people deceased in 1953, Ivan Bunin ranks 15. Before him are Guccio Gucci, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, Emmerich Kálmán, Eugene O'Neill, and Django Reinhardt. After him are Vladimir Tatlin, Hans Fritzsche, Francis Picabia, Raoul Dufy, Hugo Sperrle, and Erich Mendelsohn.

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Among people born in Russia, Ivan Bunin ranks 154 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Alexander Glazunov (1865), Vasili III of Russia (1479), Alla Pugacheva (1949), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), and Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795). After him are Feodor II of Russia (1589), Christian Goldbach (1690), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Semyon Budyonny (1883), and Lyudmila Putina (1958).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Bunin ranks 20. Before him are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938). After him are Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), and Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828).

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