Ivan Bunin
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Ivan Bunin

Author · born October 22, 1870 · died 1953

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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.

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  1. ~63Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1933

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