Which Russian émigré author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933?

Ivan Bunin won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933, becoming the first Russian author to receive the award.

Born in Voronezh in 1870, Bunin grew up connected to the Russian landed gentry and began writing poetry and prose early. His fiction often portrayed the Russian countryside, social decline, memory, exile, and the fading world of pre-revolutionary Russia with precise, restrained prose.

The Bolshevik Revolution drove Bunin from Russia in 1920. He settled in France and remained there for the rest of his life, which explains the question’s description of him as a Russian émigré author. He was living in France when he received the prize and was described as stateless at the time.

His notable works include The Village (1910), The Gentleman from San Francisco (1916), and Dark Avenues (1943). Pasternak, Sholokhov, and Solzhenitsyn also won Literature Nobels, but in 1958, 1965, and 1970 respectively.