Ivan Bunin in the field of Translation.
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Ivan Bunin was a renowned Russian author born in 1870 in Voronezh, Russia. He came from a family of Russian nobility and was homeschooled by his brother, being encouraged to read classics like Pushkin and Tolstoy. Bunin published his first poem at age 17 and his first short story in 1891. He befriended other leading Russian writers including Chekhov and Tolstoy. Bunin was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. He witnessed the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was highly critical of communism. Bunin died in 1953 in Paris and was buried there in the Russian cemetery.
Ivan Bunin in the field of Translation.
- 3. on October 22, 1870 on his ancestral estate near Voronezh, Russia died on November 8, 1953 (heart attack) Aleksei Bunin, and his mother, were descendants of several lines of old nobility that included Russian landed gentry and Luthuanian knights
- 4. continued homeschooling under the tutelage of his elder brother, who was a university student encouraged Bunin to write and read Russian classics such as Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy published his first poem at the age of 17, in a literary magazine in St. Petersburg
- 5. published his first short story 'Derevenski eskiz‘ (aka.. Country Sketch) 1891 an assistant editor of a local newspaper in the city of Orel, Russia started a correspondence with Anton Chekhov 1894 Bunin met Leo Tolstoy. He admired the works of Tolstoy
- 6. during the 1900s Bunin and Gorky spent several winters together on the isle of Capri by 1900 Ivan Bunin had published over 100 poems by 1899 translated 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Longfellow was awarded the Pushkin Prize and Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Science
- 7. His other translations included Lord Byron's 'Manfred', Tennyson's 'Lady Godiva', and poems by Alfred de Musset elected one of the 12 full members of the Russian Academy of Sciences witnessed the terror and destruction caused by communists during the Russia Revolution of 1917
- 8. was the eldest of Russian émigré writes, and was regarded by all intellectual émigrés as the last one writing in the high tradition of Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933 was arrested by the Nazis on a false accusations of smuggling jewels
- 9. best known books 'Solnechny Udar' (A Sunstroke 1927), 'Zhizn Arsenyeva' (The Life of Arsenyev 1933), 'Lika' (1939), and'Tyomnye Allei' (Dark Alleys, or in some translations, Shadowed Paths, 1943) most of Bunin's books were banned in Russia under the Soviet censorship
- 10. later, every year in the morning of the 8th of November, Bunin suffered from painful traumatic memories about the collapse of Russia died of a heart attack in the morning of November 8, 1953, in his apartment in Paris and was laid to rest in the Russian Cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in Paris
- 11. Selected works by Bunin were published posthumously in Russia, in 1956: 1961, during the "Thaw" that was initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. However,Bunin's eyewitness account of the Russian revolution and the chaos caused by the communists, novel 'Okayannye dni' (The Accursed Days), remained unpublished in Russia until after the collapse of the Soviet Union.