Andrei Bitov
{{Short description|Russian writer (1937–2018)}}
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Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov ({{langx|ru|Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов}}, 27 May 1937 – 3 December 2018{{cite web|url=https://meduza.io/news/2018/12/03/umer-andrey-bitov|title=Умер Андрей Битов|lang=ru|trans-title=Andrei Bitov has died|accessdate=2018-12-03|date=2018-12-03|work=Meduza}}) was a prominent Russian writer of Circassian ancestry.
Biography
Bitov was born in Leningrad. 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 the Leningrad Mining Institute. While there, he joined a literary association for young writers led by {{ill|Gleb Semyonov|ru|Семёнов, Глеб Сергеевич}}. He also served with a {{ill|building battalion|ru|Строительные войска}} 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 the Union 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 of Perestroika.
In 1988, he was one of the founders of the Russian PEN Club and was its President beginning in 1991. He also taught at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
He received an award from Oktyabr for his story Something with love... in 2013.[http://rupaper.com/post/14865 The Oktyabr magazine the Writer Andrey Bitov will award Andrey Bitov and Leonid Heifetz] Ru paper. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2013. This was followed in 2014 by the {{ill|Government Award of the Russian Federation|ru|Правительственные награды Российской Федерации}} for culture and, in 2015, he was awarded the Platonov Prize. In 2018, he received the Order of Friendship. He died in Moscow.
English translations
- Life in Windy Weather: Short Stories, Ardis, 1986.
- Pushkin House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987 & Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
- A Captive of the Caucasus, HarperCollins, 1994.
- Ten Short Stories, Raduga Publishers, 1995.
- The Monkey Link, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
- The Symmetry Teacher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
See also
References
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Secondary literature
- Sven Spieker: Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose. Postmodernism and the Quest for History. (= Slawische Literaturen) Frankfurt: PeterLang, 1995, {{ISBN|978-3-631-46940-8}}.
- Ellen Chances: Andrei Bitov: The Ecology of Inspiration (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature), Cambridge UP, 2006, {{ISBN|0-521-02527-3}}
External links
- {{in lang|ru}} [http://royallib.com/read/bitov_andrey/dvorets_bez_tsarya.html#0 Palace without a Tsar]
- {{in lang|en}} [http://www.russia-ic.com/people/culture_art/b/99/ The Baggage of Writer Andrei Bitov]
- {{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20061207001245/http://www.biograph.comstar.ru/bank/bitov.htm Biography]
- {{in lang|en}} [http://fictionwritersreview.com/review/andrei-bitovs-translingual-novel-the-symmetry-teacher/ Andrei Bitov's Translingual Novel The Symmetry Teacher, by Ian Singleton]
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Category:Writers from Saint Petersburg
Category:20th-century Russian male writers
Category:Russian male novelists
Category:Russian male short story writers
Category:Circassian people from the Soviet Union
Category:Soviet short story writers
Category:20th-century Russian short story writers
Category:Pushkin Prize winners
Category:High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni
Category:Honorary members of the Russian Academy of Arts
Category:Circassian people of Russia
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