Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), born in Voronezh into an impoverished noble family, had to leave the lycée of Yelets because of his family's difficulties and was taught by his brother Yuli. He received the Pushkin Prize in 1903 and in 1909. In January 1920, he left Russia and settled in France, where he lived in Paris and Grasse. In 1933, he was the first Russian writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Paris on 8 November 1953.

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