| '''Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin''' (October 10, 1870 –
November 8, 1953) was a Russian writer of poems, short stories, and novels.
He was born on his parents' estate near Voronezh in Oryol province in central
Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry and serf owners, but his
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info had squandered nearly all of the estate. He was sent to
the public school in Yelets in 1881, but had to return home after five years.
His brother, who was university-educated, encouraged him to read the Russian
classics and to write. At 17, he published his first poem in 1887 in a St.
Petersburg literary magazines. His first collection of poems, Listopad,
appeared in 1901 and was warmly welcomed by critics. In 1889, he followed
his brother to Kharkov, where he became a government clerk, assistant editor
of a local paper, librarian, and court statistician. He also began a correspondence
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with whom he became close friends. He also had a more distant relationship
with Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy. In 1891, he published his first short
story, "Country Sketch" in a literary journal, and he became known
primarily for his short stories, including "On the Farm," "The
News From Home," "To the Edge of the World," "Antonov
Apples," and "The Gentleman from San Francisco." Bunin was
also a well-known translator. The most famous of his translations is Longfellow's
"The Song of Hiawatha" for which Bunin was awarded the Pushkin
Prize in 1903. He also did translations of Byron, Tennyson, and Musset.
From 1895 on, he divided his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg. He
married the daughter of a Greek revolutionary in 1898, but the marriage
ended in divorce. In 1907, he married a second time. He published his first
full-length work, The Village, when he was 40. It was a realist portrayal
of Village life, with its stupidity, brutality, and violence. It was criticized
for its "characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as
to be scarcely human." Two years later, he published Dry Valley, which
was a veiled portrayal of his family. Before World War I, Bunin traveled
in Ceylon, Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey, and these travels left their mark
on his writing. He spent the winters from 1912 to 1914 on Capri with Gorky.
He left Moscow after the revolution in 1917, moving to Odessa. He left Odessa
on the last French ship in 1919 and settled in Grasse, France. There, he
published his diary, which contained strong criticism of the Bolshevik regime.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. On the journey through Germany
to accept the prize in Stockholm, he was detained, ostensibly for jewel
smuggling, and forced to drink a bottle of castor oil. He was a strong opponent
of the Nazis and reportedly sheltered a Jew in his house in Grasse throughout
the occupation. He published Two parts of a projected trilogy: The Life
of Arsenyev and Lika, which were "neither a short novel, nor a novel,
nor a long short story, but . . . of a genre yet unknown." Bunin died
of a heart attack in a Paris attic flat. Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin,
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