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Andrei Bitov

Died in 2018

Andrei Bitov (1937-2018), born in Leningrad on 27 May 1937, left the besieged city in March 1942. A graduate of the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1962, he published his first stories in the early 1960s and joined the Writers' Union in 1965. In 1979 he took part in the Metropol almanac, which gathered texts rejected by the censors. President of the Russian PEN Club from 1991, he died in Moscow on 3 December 2018.

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