Benedikt Sarnov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benedikt Sarnov

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1927

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Apr-2014

Profession: writer, literary critic, literary historian

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Benedikt Sarnov (Russian: ??????´?? ????´?????? ?????´?; January 4, 1927 – April 20, 2014) was a Moscow literary critic, historian of Soviet literature, and writer.
After graduating from Gorky Institute of World Literature in 1951, he became a member of Union of Soviet Writers in 1960.
He worked in the magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta, created a popular literary radio program and authored a column about Russian prose in Ogonek.
In 1990s he became Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union, a part of Union of Russian Writers.
He has published over twenty books, and hundreds of articles and reviews, and continued to be active in the post-Soviet period.
His most recent books were about relationships of Stalin and Soviet writers and other intellectuals He died in 2014.