Arkady Bartov was born in 1940. A student of applied mathematics, he worked in the IT-department of a scientific institute until the late 1980's. He is fired and takes a variety of different jobs (security, production line, radio). His first literary works go back to the 1970's. Arkady Bartov lives in St. Petersburg. Foreign rights: Austria (Ritter), Germany (Verlag der Autoren)