Andrei Bitov

Native name	Андрей Георгиевич Битов
Born	(1937-05-27) May 27, 1937 Leningrad, USSR
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Russian
Genre	Postmodern literature

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

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.^[1]

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.

See also

• List of notable 20th-century writers
• Russian literature

References

Secondary literature

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

External links

• (in Russian) Palace without a Tsar
• (in English) The Baggage of Writer Andrei Bitov
• (in Russian) Biography
• (in English) Andrei Bitov's Translingual Novel The Symmetry Teacher, by Ian Singleton