The Russian writer Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (October 10, 1870 - November 8, 1953), born in Voronezh, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.

Initially he wrote journalism and poetry, then prose, especially short stories. He emigrated from Russia in 1919, eventually settling in Paris.

He published his first poem in 1887 in one of St. Petersburg's literary magazines. His first collection of poems, "Listopad", appeared in 1901 and was warmly welcomed by critics. Besides writing poems, Bunin was a well-known translator. The most famous of his works in the field of translation is Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" for which Bunin was awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1903.