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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

The Russian writer Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (10 October 1870 - 8 November 1953), born in Voronezh[?], won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.

Initially he wrote journalism and poetry, then prose, especially short stories. He emigrated from Russia in 1919, eventually settling in Paris.

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