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Occupation
  
novelist

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Andrei Bitov

Nationality
  
Russian


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Native name
  
andrei Georgievich Bitov

Born
  
May 27, 1937 (age 86) Leningrad, USSR (
1937-05-27
)

Books
  
Pushkin House, The Symmetry Teacher, The Monkey Link, A captive of the Caucasus, El Profesor De Simetria

Similar People
  
Fazil Iskander, Viktor Yerofeyev, Sasha Sokolov, Vasily Aksyonov, Venedikt Yerofeyev

Andrei Bitov & Vladimir Tarasov at Anatoly Vasiliev Theatre, Moscow December 22, 2005


Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (Russian: Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов, born Leningrad, 27 May 1937) is a prominent Russian writer.

Contents

АНДРЕЙ БИТОВ -'ВЕРБНОЕ', музыка -Арпине Калининой. Arpine Kalinina - 'Verbnoе', text by ANDREI BITOV


Works and awards

Among the novels that solidified his reputation are: Flying-Away Monakhov, Life in Windy Weather, Pushkin House, Captive of the Caucasus, and The Monkey Link.

Bitov was granted the Bunin Prize in 2006 for his selected prose works Palace Without a Tsar. Bitov’s works have been translated into a number of European languages, including English, German, Swedish, French and Italian. He was awarded by Oktyabr magazine for his story Something with love... in 2013.

English Translations

  • Life in Windy Weather: Short Stories, Ardis, 1986.
  • A Captive of the Caucasus, HarperCollins, 1994.
  • Ten Short Stories, Raduga Publishers, 1995.
  • Pushkin House, Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
  • The Monkey Link, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
  • The Symmetry Teacher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
  • Secondary literature

  • Ellen Chances: Andrei Bitov: The Ecology of Inspiration (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature), Cambridge UP, 2006, ISBN 0-521-02527-3
  • References

    Andrei Bitov Wikipedia