(1870–1953), Russian poet and prose writer; full name Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. An opponent of modernism, he concentrated on the themes of peasant life and love. Nobel Prize for Literature (1933, the first Russian prizewinner).
Definition of Bunin, Ivan in US English:
Bunin, Ivan
proper nounˈbo͞onyin
(1870–1953), Russian poet and writer; full name Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. An opponent of modernism, he concentrated on the themes of peasant life and love. Nobel Prize for Literature (1933).