He gained fame with his poems reflecting the daily life of ordinary Russian people living in the countryside.
(1870-1953) Russian poet and writer. He is the first Russian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born on October 22, 1870, in Voronezh, and died on November 8, 1953, in Paris. He came from an impoverished noble family.
After studying at Moscow University, he worked for a while in the village administrations in Central Russia. He traveled in Europe and Asia. He met Chekhov and Gorky. He joined the democratic-writers community that worked with Gorky but did not adopt the socio-political views of the group.
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded 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.
His first book of poetry was published in 1891. In the last years of the 19th century, he gained fame by translating the works of English poets into Russian. Among his translations were Byron's verse plays Manfred and Cain.
He received the Pushkin Prize in 1901 for a poem. He was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy in 1909. He left Russia in 1920 and settled in France. After this date, Bunin became famous for his short stories rather than his poems.
His collection of short stories, Gospodin iz San-Frantsisko ("Lord of San Francisco"), the satire of Western civilization, was published in 1915.
Zhizn Arsenyeva ("The Life of Arsenyev"), a semi-autobiographical novel, won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.
Lika, a sequel to this novel, was published in 1939, and his final collection of short stories, Tyomnye alley ("Dark Streets") in 1943.
In his stories, he dealt with the dissolution of traditional village life in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
There is a great intensity in the stories he wrote after 1943, some of them shorter than a page.
Bunin has treatises on Tolstoy and Chekhov, with whom he is personally acquainted. The one on Tolstoy was published in 1937, and the one on Chekhov was published posthumously in 1955.
5 facts about Ivan Bunin, Russia's first Nobel Prize-winning author
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