biography
| name: |
Bunin, Ivan Alexeyevich
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pronunciation:
[boonin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1953)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Voronezh, W Russia. He worked as a journalist and clerk, writing lyrics and novels of the decay of the Russian nobility and of peasant life. His best-known work is Gospodin iz San-Francisco (1922, The Gentleman from San Francisco). He was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933). After the Revolution, he lived in Paris. |
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