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Andrei Bitov was born in St. Petersburg in 1937. He studied at the Mining Institute there, but was expelled when he began neglecting his studies to write poetry. He worked as a stevedore, served in the army, returned to the institute, and started to write prose.

In 1963 he became a full-time writer of stories. A collection of these stories, Life in Windy Weather, was published in translation in 1986. Other books that have been translated into English include Pushkin House, The Monkey Link, and Captive of the Caucasus.