Mikhail Yasnov died

On October 27, the poet and translator Mikhail Yasnov died in St. Petersburg at the age of 74.

This was reported by his wife.

Mikhail Davidovich Yasnov was born in 1946 in Leningrad, in 1970 he graduated from the Philology Department of Leningrad University. Since the mid-1970s, he has been engaged in children's literature and artistic translation.

The author is about a hundred books of poems and prose for children, as well as anthologies and collections of children's writers of the twentieth century. Among the most famous works of the poet, the collection “Cure for Zevota” and the poem “Scarecrow-Minor”. In 2014, a book of articles and an essay on children's poetry “Journey to Miraculousness. A book about children, children's poetry and children's poets. ” The verses of Mikhail Yasye were translated into French, English, Polish, Estonian, Latvian, Romanian and other languages.

The main interests of Mikhail Yarev in the artistic translation were French poetry and the history of French-Russian literary ties. More than a hundred books of translations of his poems and prose for children have been published. Among the books of Mikhail Yasnut “Selected Translations” (2011), “Fragments of experiments. From French poetry. Translations. Comments. Notes on the fields ”(2016),“ On French poets and Russian translators ”(2017).

Since 1992, Mikhail Yasnov has been the author and host of the programs of the St. Petersburg radio devoted to children's creativity, since 2001 he was conducted by the literary department of the newspaper Kindergarten from all sides, since 2009 - the annual creative seminar of the young writers around Detgiz. In addition, Mikhail Yasnov was the chairman of the score of the artists of the Union of Writers, led the art studio at the French Institute in St. Petersburg.

Laureate of many literary awards, including the Maurice Vaxmamer Award for the best translation of French fiction (2003), the Samuel Marshak Award for Best Children's Poems (2005), the Master Award for Books of Apolliner, Picasso's Books and Two -volume Translations of French Lyrics (2008), Corney named after Corney Chukovsky for creative achievements in domestic children's poetry (2009).