Benedikt Sarnov

Benedikt Sarnov (Russian: Бенеди́кт Миха́йлович Сарно́в; 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[1][2][3] He died in 2014.[4]

Benedikt Sarnov
Benedikt Sarnov, Russian writer
BornJanuary 4, 1927
Moscow, Russian SFSR
DiedApril 20, 2014(2014-04-20) (aged 87)
Moscow, Russia

Bibliography
  • Наш советский новояз. Маленькая энциклопедия реального социализма. (Our Soviet Newspeak: A Short Encyclopedia of Real Socialism.) (Moscow: 2002) ISBN 5-85646-059-6
  • Перестаньте удивляться: непридуманные истории (Moscow: 1998) has been translated into English and was published under the title Stop Being Surprised! Vignettes from Soviet Literary and Other Life by Infinity Publishing in 2004, ISBN 0-7414-2208-5.

References
  1. Review to book "Stalin and writers" by Sarnov
  2. Interview with Benedikt Sarnov by Natella Boltyanskaya at Echo of Moscow
  3. Interview with Benedikt Sarnov by Viktor Shenderovich at RFERL (Russian)
  4. "В Москве скончался литературовед, литературный критик Бенедикт Сарнов". ИТАР-ТАСС. 2014-04-20. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
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