Russian writer and poet Igor Sakhnovsky died on November 18 in Yekaterinburg at the age of 61. This was reported by Interfax, citing the writer's colleague Yevgeny Kasimov. According to him, Sakhnovsky died of an aortic rupture. It is not yet known when the writer will be forgiven.

Igor Sakhnovsky's book "A Sharp Feeling of Saturday": a collection of short stories featuring filibusters, city lunatics and Venetian beauties

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Sakhnovsky was born on July 17, 1958 in Orsk. He graduated from the philological faculty of the Ural State University in 1981. He worked at the Middle Ural Book Publishing House, the Ural Sledopyt magazine, the Ural branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the Nauka publishing house.

Sakhnovsky is the author of four novels, including: The Urgent Needs of the Dead, The Man Who Knew Everything, The Conspiracy of Angels, Freedom by Default, as well as several collections of short stories and poems. He is also a finalist for the National Bestseller, Big Book, and Russian Booker awards, and the winner of the NOS Readers' Choice Award. In 2008, his novel The Man Who Knew Everything was awarded the Bronze Snail Prize by Boris Strugatsky, and in 2009 it was adapted for the screen by director Vladimir Mirzoev. The writer's works are published in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Lebanon, and Croatia.

Writer Igor Sakhnovsky Dies