Andrei Bitov died

In Moscow, at the age of 81, writer Andrei Bitov died. This was reported on her Facebook by the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich.

Bitov was one of the first postmodern writers in Russian literature. His most famous novel - Pushkin’s House (1971) - was distributed in Samizdat and was first published in the American publishing house Ardis in 1978. After the novel in the United States, Bitova stopped printing in the USSR for a long time - his works began to be published only during perestroika.

In total, he wrote more than 20 books, including the Georgian Album, the Man in the Landscape, Articles from the novel, Symmetry Lecturer. For the novel “Flying Monks”, Bitov in 1992 received the State Prize of the Russian Federation. In 1993, he became the gentleman of the French Order "For Merit in Art and Literature."

According to Andrei Bitov’s scenarios, the films “Little Fugitive” by Eduard Bocharov and Tainosuke Kinugas and “On Thursday and never” Anatoly Efros were shot. Since the late 1980s, he worked a lot abroad, taught Russian literature at American universities; He was also an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.