Benedict Sarnov died

On Sunday, April 20, in Moscow, at the age of 87, literary critic and literary critic Benedict Sarnov died.

About ITAR-TASS, his son, Felix Sarnov, reported.

Benedict Sarnov was born in Moscow in 1927, in 1951 he 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 "Spark" the heading "Russian prose. The twentieth century. From the storerooms. "

Since 1960, Benedict Sarnov has been a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, in 1992–96 - the secretary of the Moscow Writers Union, since 1997 he was a member of the Presidential Prize Commission on the President of the Russian Federation.

As the writer’s son said, Sarnov considered his main literary work the 4-volume of Stalin and Writers, the last volume of which was released in 2013. Benedict Sarnov is also known as the author of serious and at the same time fascinating books about the work and fate of Russian writers of the twentieth century.