Ivan Bunin won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933 while living in exile outside Russia.
Bunin was a Russian poet, novelist, and short-story writer whose work was praised for strict artistry and his continuation of Russian classical prose traditions. He left Russia after the 1917 Revolution and eventually settled in France.
His major works include The Village, The Life of Arseniev, and Dark Avenues. Much of his writing explores memory, rural life, love, loss, and the vanished world of pre-revolutionary Russia.
Bunin was the first Russian writer to receive the Literature Prize. Later Russian-language laureates included Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Joseph Brodsky.