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1870 – 1953Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)Died 8 November 1953, aged 83Ivan Bunin was a Russian writer and the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1933. He lived much of his later life in exile in France after opposing the Bolshevik Revolution. His work is noted for its precise, lyrical prose depicting pre-revolutionary Russian life.