WRITER

Ivan Bunin

1870 - 1953

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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( BOO-neen or BOO-nin; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ ˈbunʲɪn] ; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Bunin has received more than 571,395 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Ivan Bunin is the 560th most popular writer (down from 538th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Writer.

Ivan Bunin was a Russian writer who is most famous for his novel The Village.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Bunin ranks 560 out of 7,302. Before him are Arthur Koestler, W. Somerset Maugham, Francisco de Quevedo, Mikael Agricola, George Eliot, and Dino Buzzati. After him are Georges Perec, Ausonius, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sidney Sheldon, A. A. Milne, and Faxian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Ivan Bunin ranks 16. Before him are Miguel Primo de Rivera, William G. Morgan, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Karl Renner, and Lavr Kornilov. After him are Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Gustav Bauer, Josef Hoffmann, Maurice Denis, Clara Immerwahr, and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Among people deceased in 1953, Ivan Bunin ranks 18. Before him are Django Reinhardt, Mary of Teck, Emmerich Kálmán, Hans Fritzsche, Eugene O'Neill, and Vladimir Tatlin. After him are Raoul Dufy, Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Walther Darré, Hugo Sperrle, Eduard Künneke, and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Bunin ranks 183 out of 3,761. Before him are Witold Pilecki (1901), Felix Yusupov (1887), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Wladimir Köppen (1846), Roman Abramovich (1966), and Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657). After him are Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), and Gotthard Heinrici (1886).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Bunin ranks 21. Before him are Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884). After him are Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Alexander Herzen (1812), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), and Ivan Krylov (1769).

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