Benedict Sarnov turned 85

Criticism and publicist Benedict Sarnov turned 85 years old. He was congratulated on the anniversary of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana Medvedeva. "You devoted your life to the study of the creative heritage of Russian writers of the 20th century. Your books and journalistic works are popular not only among specialists, but also with a wide range of readers," the telegram says.

Benedict Mikhailovich Sarnov was born on January 4, 1927 in Moscow. He graduated from the Literary Institute. Gorky (1951), was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (since 1960). He collaborated with the magazine "Pioneer" and "Literary Gazeta", where he published his literary parodies.

Together with Stanislav Rassadin, he was the author of children's radio broadcasts "in the country of lettered heroes." In the late 80s, he led in the magazine "Slight" Rubric Russian Prose. XX century. " Since 1997 - member of the Commission on State Prizes under the President of the Russian Federation. Academician ARSS (1997). The author of books about Samuel Marshak (1968), Mandelstam (1990), Zoshchenko (1993), Mayakovsky (2005). Sarnov’s last book is the 4 -volume of Stalin and Writers, published in Exmo in 2008 - 2011.