Nobel Prize in Literature 1933

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933 was awarded to Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"

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