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Famous Russian poet and novelist who was the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933). Author of brilliant realistic tales, short stories, and novels, which describe the bleakness of life in Russian provinces. Continued the realistic tradition established by such Russian writers, as Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev. Born in Voronezh, educated at the University of Moscow. Worked as a journalist and clerk to supplement a meager income. Published his first volume of poetry in 1891. In 1903 received the Pushkin Prize of the Russian Academy for his translations of American and English poetry. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, made his home in Paris. His major works include collections of short stories "Gospodin iz San Frantsisko" ("The Gentleman from San Francisco") and "Tyomnye Alley" ("Dark Avenues"), novels "Derevnya" ("The Village") and "Mitina lyubov" ("Mitya's Love"). In 1918 for several months stayed in Odessa, where wrote a famous diary "Okayannye dni" ("Cursed Days"). Ivan Bunin Page Selected
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