Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) was a Russian writer and poet known for his lyrical prose and stories of pre-revolutionary life. He became the first Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.

Russian literature: Literature written in Russian, spanning works from medieval texts to contemporary writing. Bunin became a major prose writer within this national literary tradition.
The Village: A 1910 novel by Ivan Bunin portraying rural Russian life and its social conditions. This early novel established Bunin’s stark account of village life.
Voronezh: A city in southwestern Russia, founded in the sixteenth century. Bunin was born here in 1870.
Anton Chekhov: A Russian playwright and short-story writer whose works include The Cherry Orchard and The Lady with the Dog. Bunin admired Chekhov and wrote a memoir about him.
Nobel Prize in Literature: An annual international award recognizing outstanding contributions to literature, established by Alfred Nobel’s will. Bunin received the prize in 1933 for the artistry with which he continued classical Russian traditions.
Russian poetry: Poetry written in Russian, shaped by changing literary movements, forms, and historical eras. Bunin began as a poet and retained a poet’s attention to sound and imagery.
Dry Valley: A 1912 novella by Ivan Bunin about a declining landowning family and its estate. Its family memories and decaying estate crystallize Bunin’s pre-revolutionary concerns.
Oryol: A city in western Russia associated with writers including Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Leskov. Bunin worked in Oryol as a young man and began his literary career there.
Leo Tolstoy: A Russian novelist and moral thinker, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tolstoy’s literary stature formed part of the tradition against which Bunin’s generation wrote.
Russian Nobel laureates: Writers and scholars from Russia or its literary traditions who have received Nobel Prizes. Bunin was the first Russian-born recipient of the Literature prize.

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