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| Native name | Андрей Георгиевич Битов |
| Born | (1937-05-27)27 May 1937 Leningrad,Russian SFSR,USSR |
| Died | 3 December 2018(2018-12-03) (aged 81) Moscow,Russia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality | Soviet, Russian |
| Genre | Novel |
| Literary movement | Russian postmodernism |
Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (Russian:Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов, 27 May 1937 – 3 December 2018[1]) was a prominentRussian writer ofCircassian ancestry.
Bitov was born inLeningrad. His father was an architect and his mother was a lawyer. He completed his secondary education in 1954 and began writing two years later. In 1957, he became a student at theLeningrad Mining Institute. While there, he joined a literary association for young writers led byGleb Semyonov [ru]. He also served with abuilding battalion [ru] in the north and graduated in 1962.
He then began writing poetry and short, absurdist stories which were not published until the 1990s. In 1965, he became a member of theUnion of Soviet Writers. By 1978, he had published ten works, but his now best known work,Pushkin House, had to be published in the United States and did not appear in the USSR until two years after the beginning ofPerestroika.
In 1988, he was one of the founders of the RussianPEN Club and was its President beginning in 1991. He also taught at theMaxim Gorky Literature Institute.
He received an award fromOktyabr for his storySomething with love... in 2013.[2] This was followed in 2014 by theGovernment Award of the Russian Federation [ru] for culture and, in 2015, he was awarded thePlatonov Prize. In 2018, he received theOrder of Friendship. He died inMoscow.
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