Ivan Alexeevich Bunin

Ivan Alexeevich Bunin (Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, October 22, 1870 – November 8, 1953) was a Russian writer and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born into a declining aristocratic family in the city of Voronezh, his father Alexey Nikolayevich Bunin was a prodigal son who drank and gambled excessively and squandered all his property. His mother, Lyudmila Alexandrovna, was often sad and shed tears. Later, the family was forced to move to his grandfather's Butyrki estate, and later to his grandmother's estate in Orel Province. Bunin spent his childhood in a quiet rural life. In 1881, Bunin studied at the Noble Boys' High School in Yelets County, but dropped out of school. As the family's financial situation deteriorated, Buning began to work outside the home very early. He worked as a proofreader, statistician, librarian, and reporter. When he was working at the Orel Herald, he met a girl named Varya Paschenko. They fell in love for two years and finally broke up due to the opposition of the girl's parents. Bunin caused a lot of trauma in his soul. Most of his novels have tragic endings. He has studied under Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky and other writers, and has written for Gorky's "Knowledge Publishing House". He began publishing literary works in 1887. He published his first collection of poems in 1892, his first short story in 1897, and his collection of poems "Falling Leaves" in 1901, which was based on the theme of the motherland, its poor villages and vast forests, and won the Pushkin Prize. After the October Revolution in 1920, he went into exile in France. Wrote nearly 200 short stories. His major works include the poetry collection "Falling Leaves", the short stories "Three Rubles", "Heatstroke", "Antonov's Apples", "Pine Tree", "Crow", "New Road", "Paris", the novella "Country", etc. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Mija's Love". Reason for winning the Nobel Prize: "Because of his rigorous artistic talent, he has enabled the Russian classical tradition to be carried forward in prose."