Literary critic Benedict Sarnov died

In the 88th year of life in Moscow, a famous literary critic, a literary critic Benedict Sarnov, died. This was reported to the ITAR -TASS agency by the son of a writer - Felix Sarnov.

Benedict Sarnov in 1951 graduated from the Literary Institute. He worked in the journal Pioneer, Literary Newspaper.

In the 1970s, together with Stanislav Rassadin, he was the author of popular children's literary radio programs "in the country of literary heroes." In 1989, he led in the magazine "Slight" Rubric Russian prose. The twentieth century. From the storerooms. " Since 1960 he was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1992-96 - Secretary of the Union of Writers of Moscow. Since 1997, he was a member of the State Prizes under the President of the Russian Federation.

As the writer’s son said, the four -volume of Stalin and Writers, the last volume of which was published in 2013, was considered his main literary work, Echo of Moscow reports.

Benedict Sarnov is also known as the author of books about the work and fate of Russian writers of the twentieth century.