Excerpt from Mitya's Love He was actually twenty-one when his first book  a volume of verse  was pub lished at Orel, the capital of his native province and the birthplace Of Turgenev. Twelve years later, in 1903, Bunin was awarded the Pushkin Prize for literature, and had taken his place in the front rank of Chekhov's successors. After the death of Chekhov, in 1904, and the Revolution of 1905, Vladimir Korolenko survived as the representative of the older school of romantic fiction, but he had no followers of importance. The leadership of the new school of Realism fell to Maxim Gorky, about whom were grouped the.
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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russian: Иван Алексеевич Бунин) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. Best known for his short novels The Village (1910) and Dry Valley (1912), his autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev (1933, 1939), the book of short stories Dark Avenues (1946) and his 1917–1918 diary ( Cursed Days, 1926), Bunin was a revered figure among anti-communist White emigres, European critics, and many of his fellow writers, who viewed him as a true heir to the tradition of realism in Russian literature established by Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. He died November 8, 1953 in Paris.
