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Andrei Bitov
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Андрей Георгиевич Битов
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| Born | 27 May 1937 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Died | 3 December 2018 (aged 81) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Genre | Postmodern literature |
Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (Russian: Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов, May 27, 1937 – December 3, 2018) was a very important Russian writer. He had a background from the Circassian people.
Andrei Bitov's Life Story
Andrei Bitov was born in Leningrad, a big city in Russia. His father was an architect, who designs buildings, and his mother was a lawyer. After finishing high school in 1954, he started writing just two years later.
In 1957, he began studying at the Leningrad Mining Institute. While there, he joined a group for young writers. This group was led by a person named Gleb Semyonov. He also spent some time working in a special building group in the northern part of the country. He finished his studies in 1962.
After college, Andrei Bitov started writing poems and short, unusual stories. These stories were so different that they were not published until the 1990s. In 1965, he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, which was a big deal for writers in the Soviet Union.
By 1978, he had published ten books. However, his most famous book, Pushkin House, had to be published in the United States first. It didn't come out in the Soviet Union until 1989, two years after a time of big changes called Perestroika began.
In 1988, he helped start the Russian PEN Club, which is a group that supports writers and free speech. He became its President in 1991. He also taught writing at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
Andrei Bitov received many awards for his writing. In 2013, he won an award from Oktyabr magazine for his story Something with love.... The next year, in 2014, he received the Government Award of the Russian Federation for his work in culture. In 2015, he was given the Platonov Prize. His last award was the Order of Friendship in 2018. Andrei Bitov passed away in Moscow in 2018.
His Books in English
Many of Andrei Bitov's books have been translated into English, so people around the world can read them. Some of his well-known works include:
- Life in Windy Weather: Short Stories, published in 1986.
- Pushkin House, published in 1987. This is one of his most famous books.
- A Captive of the Caucasus, published in 1994.
- Ten Short Stories, published in 1995 by Raduga Publishers.
- The Monkey Link, published in 1999.
- The Symmetry Teacher, published in 2014.
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