2. Biography
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin born 22 October
in 1870 in Voronezh.
Poet and novelist, the first Russian to
receive the Nobel Prize for Literature and
one of the best of Russian stylists.
While working as a journalist Bunin wrote
and translated poetry; his first volume of
verse was published in 1891. He was
awarded a Pushkin prize in 1903 by the
Russian Academy, which later elected him
an honorary fellow. He died 8 November in
1953 in the Paris.
3. «Lika»
Second volumes
of memoirs:
«Memories and
Portraits»
“The Life
of Arsenev”
«Mitya's Love»«The Village»
«The Well of
Days»
First volumes
of memoirs:
«The Cursed Days»
He also wrote books on Leo Tolstoy
and Anton Chekhov, both of whom
he knew personally.