The writer Andrei Bitov died

In Moscow, writer Andrei Bitov died in a Bauman hospital. This was announced at her FB page Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich.

Bitov was born on May 27, 1937 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad Mountain Institute. He began to be printed as a student, in 1960.

Was one of the most noticeable representatives of urban prose. He belonged to the sixties of the "generation of forty -year -olds" - authors whose peak of whose popularity came in the 1970s. Although Bitov, like most “forty -year -olds”, was published in the USSR, one of his most significant works - the novel “Pushkin’s house” (1971) - was first published in the United States, and only seven years after the end - in 1978. Among the other works are the novel “Flying Monks” (1990), collections of prose “Pharmaceutical Island” (1968), “Lessons of Armenia” (1967-1969), Sunday Day (1980). In total, I released several dozen books.

In 1979, Bitov participated in the non -certificate almanac "Metropol". For this they stopped printing him in the USSR; The ban was valid until 1986.

In 1988, he acted as one of the founders of the Russian Pen Club. Since 1991 he has been his president.

In March 2014, Bitov signed up under the appeal of a group of representatives of the intelligentsia, released in protest against the occupation and annexation of Crimea.