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Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov

アンドレイ・ゲオルギエーヴィチ・ビートフ

Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1937-05-27 (Leningrad)
Died
2018-12-03 (Moscow) age 81
Nationality
Soviet, Russian
Languages
Russian
Residence History
Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) → Moscow

Career

Occupations
Writer
Active Years
1956-2018
Affiliations
Union of Soviet Writers, Russian PEN Club, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
Memberships
Union of Soviet Writers, Russian PEN Club

Education

Leningrad Mining Institute
Period: 1957-1962
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: USSR
Served in a building battalion in the north

Awards

Oktyabr award
2013
Work: Something with love...
Organization: Oktyabr magazine
Result: won
Government Award of the Russian Federation
2014
Category: 文化
Organization: Government of the Russian Federation
Result: won
Platonov Prize
2015
Organization: Platonov Arts Festival
Result: won
Order of Friendship
2018
Organization: Russian Federation
Result: won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Pushkin House

1978 Novel

A postmodern novel about Pushkin, published in the US in 1978 and in the USSR after Perestroika.

PostmodernismHistoryLiterature
Translations
  • English translation available

Translations of Works

  • Life in Windy Weather: Short Stories (1986)
  • A Captive of the Caucasus (1994)
  • The Monkey Link (1999)
  • The Symmetry Teacher (2014)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Russian postmodernismAbsurdist stories

Legacy

Prominent Russian writer of Circassian ancestry, known for Russian postmodernism.

Trivia

  • Of Circassian ancestry.