Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Ivan Bunin's Birth Card: The King of Hearts
The Compassionate King
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( BOO-neen or BOO-nin; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, IPA: [ɪˈvan‿əlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ‿ˈbunʲɪn] ; 22 October [O.S. The birth-card coordinate for October 22 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1933 Literature prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1933 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing
1933 — The Nobel Prize in Literature
“for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing”
No one else in this set holds the 1933 Literature prize; Ivan Bunin appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.
116 other Literature laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The King of Hearts coordinate
Ivan Bunin's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Ivan Bunin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
Ivan Bunin in the public record
10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953) was a Russian writer. He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. 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), autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev (1933, 1939), short stories collection Dark Avenues (1946) and 1917–1918 diary Cursed Days (1926), Bunin was a revered figure among 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 Tolstoy and Chekhov.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ivan Bunin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Ivan Bunin, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Ivan Bunin's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♥ — Birth Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Natural partnership and team-building ability
He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: literature, writer.
Other laureates with this card
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- André F. Cournand — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
- Arieh Warshel — 2013 Chemistry
- Baruch S. Blumberg — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
- Charles H. Townes — 1964 Physics
- Charles Richet — 1913 Physiology or Medicine
- Clinton Davisson — 1937 Physics
- Czesław Miłosz — 1980 Literature
- Doris Lessing — 2007 Literature
- George Beadle — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
- Harold E. Varmus — 1989 Physiology or Medicine
- J.J. Thomson — 1906 Physics
- 10 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Ivan Bunin's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. October 22 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Ivan Bunin's dates come from?
- Birth date 1870-10-22 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 606) + Wikidata CC0 (Q46602) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ivan Bunin). Birth date 1870-10-22 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).