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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer who became the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1933. He was known for carrying on the classical Russian traditions in prose and poetry, and was viewed as a true heir to the realism of Tolstoy and Chekhov.
Ivan Bunin won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was the first Russian writer to receive it, and was honoured for developing the traditions of Russian classic prose with chastity and artfulness. He was living as an exile in France at the time.
Ivan Bunin is best known for the short novels The Village from 1910 and Dry Valley from 1912, the autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev, the short story collection Dark Avenues, and his diary Cursed Days. The Gentleman from San Francisco from 1915 is arguably his best-known short story.
Ivan Bunin left Russia as an opponent of Bolshevism. By 1919 he was editing the cultural section of an anti-Bolshevik newspaper, and on the 26th of January 1920 he and Vera Muromtseva boarded the last French ship in Odessa, eventually settling in Paris in March 1920.
Ivan Bunin spent the war years at Villa Jeanette in the mountains near Grasse, where a small commune grew vegetables to survive. A staunch anti-Nazi who called Hitler and Mussolini rabid monkeys, he risked his life sheltering fugitives, including Jews, in his home after Vichy was occupied.
Ivan Bunin died in a Paris attic flat in the early hours of the 8th of November 1953. Heart failure, cardiac asthma, and pulmonary sclerosis were cited as causes. On the 30th of January 1954 he was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.