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Russian Literature more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich Encyclopedia Article Find in this article View printer-friendly page E-mail Multimedia 1 item Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich (1870-1953), Russian poet, novelist, and Nobel laureate, born in Voronezh, and educated at the University of Moscow. In 1903 he received the Pushkin Prize of the Russian Academy for his translations of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the English poets Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson . Bunin's literary reputation rests mainly on his realistic tales, short stories, and novels, in which his principal theme is the bleakness of life in provincial Russia. Bunin was considerably influenced by the works of the Russian writers Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev . After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Bunin made his home in Paris. In 1933 he became the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His works include | |
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