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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer. He became 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.
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Born 22 October 1870 · Died 8 November 1953 · Q46602
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“Apparently I was born a versemaker... like Turgenev, who was a versemaker, first and foremost. Finding the true rhythm of the story was for him the main thing – everything else was supplementary. And for me the crucial thing is to find the proper rhythm. Once it”
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The Complete Bunin came out in Moscow in nine volumes
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Died 1953-11-08.
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Bunin was elected the first ever hononary International PEN member, representing the community of writers in exile
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“I was born too late. If I had been born earlier, my literary memoirs would have been different. I wouldn”
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On the eve of his 80th birthday, François Mauriac expressed in a letter his delight and admiration, but also his deep sympathy to Bunin's personal qualities and the dignified way he'd got through all the tremendous diffi
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With Maria Tsetlina and Boris Zaitsev, following the decision by the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in France to expel holders of Soviet passports from its membership
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“I have a letter here from Teleshov, written on 7 September;”
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Speaking to his Communist counterparts in Paris, Bunin praised the Supreme Soviet's decision to return Soviet citizenship to Russian exiles in France, still stopping short of saying "yes" to the continuous urging from th
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“Thank God, the Germans fled Grasse without a fight, on August 23. In the early morning of the 24th the Americans came. What was going on in the town, and in our souls, that”
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Described Bunin as a "skinny and emaciated man, looking like an ancient patrician"
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When the latter, now deeply in love with another frequent guest, opera singer Margo Stepun, sister of Fyodor Stepun, left Bunin, who felt disgraced and insulted
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Received their Nansen passports enabling them to make the trip
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Bunin began working on what would later become a celebrated cycle of nostalgic stories with a strong erotic undercurrent and a Proustian ring
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Bunin finished his book The Liberation of Tolstoy (Освобождение Толстого), held in the highest regard by Leo Tolstoy scholars
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1933).
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"for following through and developing with chastity and artfulness the traditions of Russian classic prose
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Allowed calligrapher Guido Colucci to create a unique manuscript of "Un crime", a French translation of one of his novellas, illustrated with three original gouaches by Nicolas Poliakoff
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In Paris) came as a result of this voyage
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While in Grasse, Bunin fell for the Russian poet Galina Kuznetsova, on vacation there with her husband
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Published the "Manifesto of the Russian Emigration", in which he i
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After he managed at last to divorce Tsakni legally
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Quoting the Russian gentry's Armorial Book
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The novel Dry Valley (Суходол) came out, his second major piece of semi-autobiographical fiction, concerning the dire state of the Russian rural community
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Was published in Saint Petersburg as Volume VI
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Bunin published The Village (Деревня), a bleak portrayal of Russian country life, which he depicted as full of stupidity, brutality, and violence
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Alienated him even more from the critics, the majority of whom saw the Academy's decision to expel Gorky several years earlier as a disgrace
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Awarded Pushkin Prize (1903).
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Znanie started publishing the Complete Bunin series; five volumes appeared by the year 1909
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The novella Antonov Apples (Антоновские яблоки) was published; later it was included in textbooks and is regarded as Bunin's first real masterpiece, but it was criticised at the time as too nostalgic and elitist, alleged
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His first short story collection To the Edge of the World and Other Stories came out, followed a year later by In the Open Air (Под открытым небом, 1898), his second book of verse
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Bunin visited the Russian capital for the first time
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His first short story "Country Sketch (Деревенский эскиз) appeared in the Nikolay Mikhaylovsky-edited journal Russkoye Bogatstvo
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And then went on to work with in Oryol in 1892
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Ivan was sent to a public school in Yelets, but never completed the course: he was expelled in March 1886 for failing to return to the school after the Christmas holidays due to the family's financial difficulties
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Born 1870-10-22.
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