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2006-2016 - Decade of rehabilitation and development of affected regions

(third decade after Chernobyl)

2010-2020 - Decade to Combat Desertification

2011-2020 - Decade of Biodiversity

Decade of Action for Road Safety

2012-2017 - Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On the National Strategy of Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017.”

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

JANUARY

January 3 - 80 years old Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov (1936-1971)

6th January - 120 years Efim Nikolaevich Permitin (1896-1971)

January 8 - 70 years old on the birthday of the Russian writer, translator Mikhail Davidovich Yasnova (1946)

13th of January - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Alexandrovich Weiner (1931-2005)

January 14 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (1911-1999)

January 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian poet Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)

January 24 - 240 years on the birthday of the German writer Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffman (1776-1822)

January 27 - 190 years on the birthday of the Russian satirist writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)

January 27 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer, poet Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg (1891-1967)

January 29 - 150 years on the birthday of the French prose writer and playwright Romain Rolland (1866-1944)

FEBRUARY

February 5th - 180 years since the birth of the Russian critic, publicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)

February 9th - 575 years since the birth of the Uzbek poet Nizamaddin Mir Alisher Navoi (1441-1501)

February 10 - 135 years since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev (1881-1972)

February 13 - 135 years since the birth of the English children's writer, the first laureate of the International Literary Prize. H. C. Andersen Elinor Farjeon (1881-1965)

February, 15 - 110 years since the birth of the Tatar poet Musa Jalil (1906-1944)

February 16 - 185 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831-1895)

February 17 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian children's poet Agni Lvovna Barto (1906-1971)

February 17 - 160 years Josepha Roni(senior) (1856-1940)

February 22 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1905)

24 February - 230 years on the birthday of the German writer, philologist Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)

24 February - 85 years old on the birthday of the Israeli writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen (1996) Uri Orleva (1931)

25 February - 145 years on the birthday of the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913)

25 February - 105 years Agnia Alexandrovna Kuznetsova (1911-1996)

28th of February - 150 years since the birth of the Russian symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949)

MARCH

March 4 - 110 years, laureate of the International Prize named after. H. C. Andersen Meindert De Jong (1906-1991)

5th of March - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Bogdanov (1906-1989)

March 12 - 80 years old on the birthday of the American writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen (1992) Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002)

March 25 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Ivanovich Musatov (1911-1976)

March 27 - 135 years since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (1881-1925)

March 27 - 145 years on the birthday of the German writer, public figure Heinrich Mann (1871-1950)

APRIL

12th of April - 85 years old Vitaly Titovich Korzhikova (1931-2007)

April 12 is World Aviation and Space Day. 55 years from the day first manned space flight(1961) (noted by UNESCO)

April 13 - 110 years anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer, Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

April 15 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921)

April 15 - 90 years old on the birthday of the Russian poetess Emma Efraimovna Moshkovskaya (1926-1981)

April 18th - 115 years on the birthday of the Hungarian writer Laszlo Nemeta (1901-1975)

April 24 - 225 years Nikolai Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (1791-1855)

April 28 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Georgy Makeevich Markov (1911-1991)

April 28 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian poet, prose writer Viktor Alexandrovich Sosnory (1936)

April 30 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov (1936)

MAY

May 2 - 160 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, philosopher Vasily Vasilievich Rozanova (1856-1919)

May 2 - 105 years since the birth of the Tajik poet Mirzo Tursun-Zade (1911-1977)

5 May - 170 years on the birthday of the Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

May 7 - 155 years birthday of Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur) (1861-1941)

May 11 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer Vera Kazimirovna Ketlinskaya (1906-1976)

May 15 - 160 years birthday of American children's writer Lyman Frank Bouma (1856-1919)

May 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)

May 20 - 105 anniversary of the birth of the Dutch writer, poet, laureate of the International H. C. Andersen Prize (1988) Anna Schmidt (1911-1995)

May, 23rd - 100 years on the birthday of the Russian writer Susanna Mikhailovna Georgievskaya (1916-1974)

May 28 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (1886-1939)

May 29 - 60 years since the birth of the Russian writer Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili - Boris Akunin (1956)

May 31 - 90 years old on the birthday of the German writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen James Crews (1926-1997)

JUNE

2 June - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Andreevich Trenev (1876-1945)

June 4 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet Apollon Nikolaevich Maykov (1821-1897)

June 11 - 205 years since the birth of the Russian critic Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky (1811-1878)

June 14 - 125 years on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1891-1977)

June 14 - 205 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

June 17 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911-1987)

June 20 - 95 years old on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Anatoly Markovich Markushi (1921-2005)

21st of June - 200 years Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

June 22 - Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, 75 years old since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and defense of the Brest Fortress (1941)

22nd of June - 160 years Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

30 June - 105 years anniversary of the birth of the Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

JULY

3 July - 90 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov (1926-2004)

July 17th - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Andreevich Lavrenev (1891-1959)

July 17th - 75 years old on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Sergei Anatolyevich Ivanov (1941)

July 18 - 205 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

July 22 - 90 years old on the birthday of the Russian prose writer, poet Sergei Alexandrovich Baruzdin (1926-1991)

26 July - 160 years anniversary of the birth of the English playwright, writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A B G U S T

August 7 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vitaly Grigorievich Melentyev (1916-1984)

August 9 - 110 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Pamela Lyndon Travers (1906-1996)

August 14 - 150 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941)

August 20 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Georgy Georgievich Belykh (1906-1938)

August 21 - 145 years since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev (1871-1919)

August 22 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (Alexey Ivanovich Eremeev) (1906-1987)

August 22 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Veniaminovich Kalinin (1916-2008)

August 27 - 145 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

SEPTEMBER

September 1 - 160 years since the birth of the Russian poet Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky (1856-1909)

September 2 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian science fiction writer Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev (1906-2002)

September 3 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (1941-1990)

September 7 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Nikolaevich Krupin (1941)

12-th of September - 95 years old anniversary of the birth of the Polish science fiction writer Stanislav Lem (1921)

12-th of September - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Nikolaevich Markov (1906-1979)

September 14 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Alexander Semenovich Kushner (1936)

September 15th - 125 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Agatha (Clarissa) Christie (Miller) (1891-1976)

September 19 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian poet Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003)

September 21 - 150 years anniversary of the birth of the English science fiction writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

September 22nd - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Reuben Isaevich Fraerman (1891-1972)

23 September - 80 years old Edward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (1936)

September 24 - 120 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

September 28 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian playwright Alexander Petrovich Stein (1906-1993)

September 30th - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer Lyubov Fedorovna Voronkova (1906-1976)

OCTOBER

October 1 - 225 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791-1859)

October 6 - 85 years old on the birthday of the Russian poet, prose writer, playwright Romana Sefa (1931-2009)

October 8 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Yuliana Semenovich Semenov (1931-1993)

October 13 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Austrian children's writer, laureate of the International Prize named after. H. C. Andersen, laureate of the International Prize in Memory of Astrid Lindgren Christine Nestling (1936)

17 October - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin (1931-2008)

October 21 - 120 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, playwright Evgeniy Lvovich Schwartz (1896-1958)

NOVEMBER

November 4 - 65 years old since the establishment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO (1945)

November 7 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mark Alexandrovich Aldanov (1886-1957)

November 7 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891-1926)

November 7 - 95 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Andrey Dmitrievich Zharikov (1921)

11th of November - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

11th of November - 115 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, illustrator Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965)

November 18th - 70 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Pietsukh (1946)

November 19 - 305 years since the birth of the Russian poet, scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov (1711-1765)

20 November - 100 years since the birth of the Russian poet Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin (1916-1994)

November 22 - 215 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, lexicographer, ethnographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl (1801-1872)

November 28 - 135 years anniversary of the birth of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig
(1881-1942)

November 28 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian outstanding public figure, philosopher Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-1999)

DECEMBER

5th of December - 115 years anniversary of the birth of the American film director, artist Walt Disney(Disney, 1901-1966)

9th December - 105 years on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Toman (1911-1974)

December 10 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877)

December 11th - 160 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, publicist Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918)

12 December - 195 years anniversary of the birth of the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

12 December - 250 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826)

December 14 - 100 years on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Viktor Ivanovich Banykin (1916-1986)

December 24 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901-1956)

December 25 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Ruslan Timofeevich Kireev (1941)

Anniversary books of 2016

695 years (1321)

A. Dante "The Divine Comedy"

290 years (1726)

J. Swift "Gulliver's Travels"

235 years(1781)

D. I. Fonvizin "Undergrown"

225 years (1791)

R. E. Raspe "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"

200 years (1816)

E. T. Goffman "Nutcracker"

195 years (1821)

A. S. Pushkin "Prisoner of the Caucasus"

190 years (1826)

V. Gauf "Collection of fairy tales for 1826»

Brothers Grimm "Fairy tales"(first Russian translation)

J. Cooper "The Last of the Mohicans"

185 years (1831)

N. V. Gogol "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"

A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit"

V. Hugo "Notre Dame Cathedral"

A. S. Pushkin “The Tale of the Priest and his Worker Balda”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan, his glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and the beautiful Princess Swan”

Stendhal "Red and black"

O. de Balzac "Shagreen skin"

180 years(1836)

Charles Dickens "Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"

A. S. Pushkin "Captain's daughter"

175 years (1841)

J. Cooper "St. John's Wort, or the First Warpath"

170 years (1846)

A. Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo"

E. Lear "The Book of Nonsense"

165 years (1851)

G. Melville "Moby Dick, or the White Whale"

160 years (1856)

S. T. Aksakov "Family Chronicles"

Charles Dickens "Little Dorrit"

155 years (1861)

F. M. Dostoevsky "Humiliated and Offended"

N. A. Nekrasov "Peasant Children"

150 years (1866)

F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

T. Main Reid "Headless horseman"

145 years (1871)

L. Carroll "Alice in the Wonderland"

140 years (1876)

N. A. Nekrasov “Who lives well in Rus'”

M. Twain "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

135 years (1881)

C. Collodi "The Story of Pinocchio"

N. S. Leskov “The Tale of the Tula Oblique Lefty and the Steel Flea”

130 years (1886)

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin "Fairy tales"

125 years (1891)

A. Conan Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

120 years (1896)

F. E. Burnett "Little Lord Fauntleroy"

115 years (1901)

A. Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

90 years old (1926)

A. S. Green "Running on the waves"

A. Milne "Winnie the Pooh"

V. A. Obruchev "Sannikov's Land"

K. I. Chukovsky “Fedorino’s grief”, “Miracle tree”, “Confusion”, “Telephone”

M. A. Sholokhov "Don Stories"

85 years old (1931)

I. Ilf and E. Petrov "Golden calf"

80 years old (1936)

V. P. Belyaev "Old Fortress"

V. P. Kataev "The Lonely Sail Is White"

S. V. Mikhalkov "Uncle Styopa"

A. N. Tolstoy « The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio"

K. Chapek "War with the Salamanders"

75 years old (1941)

A. P. Gaidar "Timur and his team", "Timur's Oath"

L. Panteleev "Honestly"

70 years old (1946)

N. M. Verzilin "In the footsteps of Robinson"

E. Ilyina "Fourth Height"

A. Lindgren "The famous detective Kale Blumkvist"

65 years old (1951)

N. N. Nosov “Vitya Maleev at school and at home”

J. Rodari "The Adventures of Cipollino"

D. Salinger "Catcher in the rye"

60 years (1956)

Y. L. Akim "Incompetent"

J. Durrell "My Family and Other Animals"

A. Rybakov "Bronze Bird"

55 years (1961)

V. Yu. Dragunsky "It's alive and glowing"

N. N. Nosov "The Adventures of Tolya Klyukvin"

50 years (1966)

S. S. Vangeli "The Adventures of Gugutse"

B.V. Zakhoder "Comrade children"

O. Preusler "Little Baba Yaga", "Little Merman", "Little Ghost"

N. I. Sladkov "Underwater newspaper"

45 years (1971)

N. N. Nosov Trilogy about Dunno

O. Preusler “Krabat.” Legends of the old mill"

G. N. Troepolsky "White Bim Black Ear"

40 years (1976)

A. G. Aleksin "Mad Evdokia"

V. G. Rasputin "Farewell to Matera"

35 years (1981)

A. Lindgren "Roni, the Robber's Daughter"

Anniversaries of newspapers and magazines

155 years (1861) of the magazine "Around the world"

80 years (1936) of the magazine "Literary Review"

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In 2017, the literary world will celebrate dozens of anniversaries of geniuses of the pen. Thanks to their works, everyone can plunge into an atmosphere of joy and sadness, forget about pressing problems and find answers to their questions. Literature is the citadel of knowledge and, undoubtedly, the 2017 anniversary writers made a significant contribution to the construction of this eternal wall of inspiration and celebration.

Russian writers

On April 10, 1937, Bella Akhmadulina was born - one of the most soulful poetess of the 20th century. Her poems were rewritten and re-sung, and collections of her works flew off bookshelves without having time to dwell on them.

Modern writer Victoria Tokareva celebrates her 80th birthday in 2017. She is famous for being the author of the script for the beloved film “Gentlemen of Fortune,” as well as for numerous novels and stories that have the genre of modern prose in literature.

On January 27, 2017, Rimma Kazakova, a Russian poetess and author of many songs, would celebrate her 85th birthday.

On March 13, Vladimir Semenovich Makanin, a Russian writer, famous for his novel “Underground, or a Hero of Our Time,” will celebrate his anniversary; the films Danelia and Teacher were based on his novels. His books have been translated into English, German, French and Spanish.

One of the most “high-profile” holidays will be celebrated by Russian literature on March 15, 2017, when the famous “village” writer Valentin Rasputin turns 80 years old.

On June 2, the domestic poetess Yunna Petrovna Marits, known for her work for children, will turn 80 years old.

On August 19, 2017, the famous Russian playwright Alexander Vampilov would have turned 80 years old. His comedy "Eldest Son" actually has a tragic background to the trust, sadness and loneliness of an adult. Vampilov’s works still have life in theatrical productions.

Poet and part-time screenwriter Gennady Shpalikov would celebrate his 80th birthday in September 2017.

The famous front-line poet and participant in the Great Patriotic War, Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko, would have celebrated his 95th birthday in 2017.

In the same month, Russian and modern writer, author of “Monumental Propaganda” Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich turns 85 years old.

A romantic and poet whose poems sound contemporary today, Robert Rozhdestvensky would have celebrated his 85th birthday in 2017.

Famous and beloved children's writers celebrate their anniversaries in 2017 - Grigory Oster turns 70 years old and Eduard Uspensky turns 80 years old.

80 years old - Olga Aleksandrovna Fokina, Soviet Russian poetess, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. Gorky, as well as the Great Literary Prize of Russia in 2007.

The anniversaries of 2017 in the field of literature are talented Soviet and Russian prose writers and poets.

On November 25, the 300th anniversary of the genius, as Belinsky put it, and the one to whom “the noise of solemn praise rushes to him,” as Pushkin wrote about him, is celebrated - the writer Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov. On April 10, the 200th anniversary is celebrated by the Russian prose writer, poet, publicist, author of the study “Lomonosov in the history of Russian literature and the Russian language,” which earned him a master’s degree in Russian literature, Konstantin Aksakov. The 200th anniversary writer of 2017 is Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov.

The great Russian playwright, creator of the trilogy “Pictures of the Past” and a man of difficult fate - Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin was born 200 years ago on September 29, 1817.

A contemporary of Sukhovo-Kobylin and Aksakov, the talented poet Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born 200 years ago on September 5, 1817. This is one of the key literary figures in educational literature. Schoolchildren know him from his historical works - a cycle of three works “The Death of Ivan the Terrible”, “Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich”, “Tsar Boris”, as well as the novel “Prince Silver”.

Poetry fans will celebrate a big date in the coming year - the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet who wrote in the genre of symbolism, one of the main figures of the Silver Age, Konstantin Balmont. His contemporary and colleague in “silver” poetry, Igor Severyanin, was born 130 years ago.

In 2017, the playwright, author of patriotic works, student of Bunin and author of the military story “Son of the Regiment” - Valentin Petrovich Kataev - will celebrate his 120th anniversary.

The same month marks the 125th anniversary of Konstantin Fedin, a controversial writer of his time who persecuted Pasternak and advocated banning the publication of Solzhenitsyn’s novel “Cancer Ward.” His famous works are the political novel “The Rape of Europe”, the memoirs “Writer, Art, Time” and “Gorky Among Us”.

Alexei Silych (Silantievich) Novikov-Priboy, who was awarded the Stalin Prize for his novel “Tsushima,” turns 140 in March.

March 10 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of the poetess Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, the daughter of the famous writer. This same month, her father, the great children's poet and publicist, Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky, turns 135 years old.

In 1912 - 105 years ago, the Russian poet and playwright Alexander Gladkov was born.

The hero of the year 2017 is Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin, who would have turned 140 years old.

A contemporary and favorite of Pushkin, whose poems he idolized, Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov was born 230 years ago. In the same year, 220 years ago, a mutual friend of the poets, a classmate of Alexander Sergeevich, a Decembrist who spent 15 years in prison, who wrote his famous works “The Death of Byron” and the poignant poem of the school curriculum “The Fate of Russian Poets”, was born - Wilhelm Karlovich Kuchelbecker.

The 120th anniversary in 2017 will be for the domestic poet and prose writer Pyotr Oreshin.

In October, the world of poetry will celebrate a big date - 125 years since the birth of one of the most beloved, soulful and subtle poetesses - Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva.

November 3 would have been the 130th anniversary of the children's writer Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak, who was awarded the Stalin Prize four times and the Lenin Prize once for books for children.

Writer of the Year 2017 - Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev - laureate of the last Pushkin Prize for translations of ancient Greek poetry, author of the novels "Sisters" and "At a Dead End", January 16 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Foreign writers

The works of foreign writers of the 18th-19th-20th centuries left a significant imprint on literature, influencing the work of many domestic creators, and to this day being modern and popular material among readers. Many anniversaries among foreign writers and poets in 2017.

date	Anniversary	Writer	Creation
January
3	125 years	John Ronald Reuel Tolkien	"The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again"
15	395 years	Jean Baptiste Poquelin - known as Molière	“Tartuffe”, “Don Juan”, “The Miser”, “The Bourgeois in the Nobility”
24	285 years	Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais	"The Barber of Seville", "The Marriage of Figaro", "Tarare"
25	135 years	Virginia Woolf	"Waves", "Diary of a Writer"
27	185 years	Lewis Carroll	"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
February
2	135 years	James Joyce	"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses"
2	135 years	Charles Dickens	"The Adventures of Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield"
11	100 years	Sydney Sheldon	The Other Side of Midnight, author of hundreds of bestsellers
25	100 years	Anthony Burgess	"A Clockwork Orange"
25	310 years	Carlo Goldoni	"The Servant of Two Masters", "The Innkeeper"
26	215 years	Victor Marie Hugo	"Notre Dame", "Les Miserables"
27	210 years	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	"Retribution" - quatrain
27	115 years	John Ernst Steinbeck	"Tortilla Flat Quarter"
March
18	85 years old	John Updike	The Witches of Eastwick, The Rabbit Novels, The Beck Trilogy
April
1	320 years	Antoine Francois Prevost	"The History of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut"
22	310 years	Henry Fielding	"Joseph Andrews"
July
2	140 years	Hermann Hesse	Nobel Prize winner, author of The Glass Bead Game
14	150 years	John Galsworthy	"Silver Box", "The Forsyte Saga", "Grotesques"
24	215 years	Alexandre Dumas (father)	Author of numerous novels about the Three Musketeers
20	190 years	Theodore Henri de Coster	“The Legend of Til”, based on which M. Zakharov’s play “The Passion of Til” was staged
September
11	155 years	O. Henry - William Sidney Porter	"Kings and Cabbage"
29	470 years	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	"Cornelia"
30	810 years	Jalala ad-Din Muhammad Rumi	Persian Sufi poet
October
3	120 years	Louis Aragon	Novel “Rich Quarters”, collection of poems “Eyes of Elsa”
November
10	130 years	Arnold Zweig	"The Great White Man's War"
14	110 years	Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren	Children's writer, author of stories about Pippi Longstocking
30	350 years	Jonathan Swift	"Gulliver's Travels", "The Tale of a Barrel"
December
13	220 years	Heinrich Heine	Famous German poet

Writers' anniversaries in 2017 are an excellent occasion to remember their work or read for the first time novels and poems for which there was not enough time or desire.

According to statistics, Russians are among the most reading nations. A survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation showed that citizens spend about 6-7 hours a week reading books. Moreover, both books by modern authors and the good old classics are in demand. An additional reason to refresh your memory of your favorite works in 2019 will be the anniversaries of writers and poets.

January

In the first month of winter, the list of anniversaries writers includes:

• 01.1919 (100) Jerome David Salinger. Writer from New York. Master of American short fiction. Creator of the legendary novel “The Catcher in the Rye.”
• 01.1929 (90) Tatyana Alexandrova. The artist wrote a fairy tale about the brownie Kuzka, based on which the famous cartoon “A House for Kuzka” was filmed.
• 01.1809 (210) Edgar Allan Poe. He preferred the style of American romanticism. He was the first to choose the short story as the main form of his work, and created the concept of a modern detective story, a genre of psychological prose. During his lifetime he was better known for his works as a critic.

• 01.1759 (260) Robert Burns. Folklorist from Scotland. Author of poems in Lowland Scots and English.
• 01.1879 (140) Pavel Bazhov. Folklorist who became famous thanks to his Ural tales.
• 01.1919 (100) Nikolai Glazkov. Founder of the neo-futurist movement of poetry.

February

The following famous writers and poets were born in February:

• 02.1829 (190) Alfred Brehm. Zoological scientist from Germany. Compiler of a large number of travel essays about the life of the animal world.
• 02.1769 (250) Ivan Krylov. During his lifetime, 236 of Krylov’s fables were collected in several collections. Many phrases from them have long become part of Russian-speaking everyday life.
• 02.1909 (110) Nikolai Rylenkov. Soviet lyricist, awarded the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor.

March

The beginning of spring 2019 was marked by the anniversaries of the following writers and poets:

• 03.1969 (50) Kirill Benediktov. Fantastic. The novel “Testament of the Night” was filmed by Sergei Zhigunov in 2008.
• 03.1859 (160) Sholom Aleichem. Jewish playwright. He was the first to create modern fiction, including children's literature, in Yiddish. Also used Hebrew and Russian.

• 03.1899 (120) Yuri Olesha. In the 1920s he was one of the main members of the Odessa literary circle. The first major novel that brought universal popularity was the fairy tale “Three Fat Men”.
• 03.1939 (80) Irina Pivovarova. The artist, together with her illustrator husband, created children's books, the talent for writing which she discovered as an adult.
• 03.1929 (90) Irina Tokmakova. Linguist, created numerous translations of poems for preschool and school children.
• 03.1929 (90) Fazil Iskander. Abkhazian author of satirical works and aphorisms. The story “Constellation Kozlotur”, which brought wide popularity, was filmed in 1989.
• 03.1619 (400) Savignen Cyrano de Bergerac. Playwright from France. Creativity served as the basis for the emergence of the science fiction genre.
• 03.1909 (110) Stanislav Jerzy Lec. Polish philosopher, creator of aphorisms and satirical works on sensitive socio-political topics. Member of the diplomatic mission.

• 03.1949 (70) Agop Melkonyan. Bulgarian science fiction writer, teacher of Armenian philology, translator of Armenian poetry. Compiler of popular science articles and technical publications.
• 03.1839 (180) Alexander Navrotsky. From the poems a Russian folk song about Stenka Razin’s cliff was born.
• 03.1839 (180) René Sully-Prudhomme. French essayist. The first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 03.1929 (90) Christa Wolf. German editor, researcher at the German Writers' Union. One of the most popular German writers of her time.

April

In April 2018, the birthday would be celebrated by:

• 04.1809 (210) Nikolai Gogol. Classic of Russian literature. After the legendary “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka,” which made him famous, a series of humorous stories about Ukrainian life followed, which were included in collections that brought enormous popularity.

• 04.1929 (90) Milan Kundera. French novelist from the Czech Republic.
• 04.1889 (130) Lydia Seifullina. Journalist, wrote stories about the revolution in the village. The dramatization of her play “Virineya” became popular among the audience.
• 04.1899 (120) Vladimir Nabokov. Literary critic, translator. Since childhood, he was fluent in English, French, and Russian. He used complex techniques with a deep analysis of the emotional state of his characters. The scandalous novel “Lolita” was filmed twice.
• 04.1889 (130) Ludwig Renn. German compiler of military-historical, political articles, as well as children's books.

May

The list of May birthday people includes the following domestic and foreign authors:

• 05.1909 (110) Yiannis Ritsos. Greek lyricist. He is the author of more than a hundred collections of poetry, as well as numerous works in prose.
• 05.1919 (100) Boris Slutsky. Poet, engaged in translations. In just 3 months after the death of his wife, he wrote more than a thousand poems.

• 05.1899 (120) Maurice Careme. The largest French-language lyricist of the twentieth century from Belgium. 60 collections were published from his pen.
• 05.1809 (210) Giuseppe Giusti. Tuscan author of satirical poems and songs.
• 05.1859 (160) Arthur Conan Doyle. A classic of English and world literature. He wrote historical and adventure novels. He gained worldwide recognition thanks to the creation of the image of Sherlock Holmes, based on whose adventures numerous films and TV series were subsequently made.
• 05.1819 (200) Walt Whitman. Reformed American poetry by juxtaposing people and objects with the infinity of the universe.

June

In the summer, birthdays are celebrated by famous poets, whose works have long been part of the school curriculum:

• 06.1899 (120) Nikolai Ushakov. In addition to writing poetry and prose, he translated and edited translations of authors from various peoples of the USSR.
• 06.1929 (90) Georgy Graubin. Poet from Transbaikalia. Winner of awards and diplomas as a compiler of children's books. The works have been translated into many languages ​​of the world and included in school textbooks.
• 06.1889 (130) Anna Akhmatova. Great lyricist of the twentieth century. She became famous during her lifetime. Compiler of a large number of poetry collections.

July

In the second summer month of 2019, we congratulate the following anniversaries:

• 07.1789 (230) Thaddeus Bulgarin. Russian author of Polish origin. He became the founder of the genres of adventure picaresque and fantasy novel. The works have been translated into many languages.
• 07.1919 (100) Boris Balter. He gained fame after the release of the autobiographical story “Goodbye, boys!”
• 07.1889 (130) Nikolay Aseev. Poet, screenwriter, worked in the style of futurism. Revolutionary creations comprised more than 80 collections.

• 07.1899 (120) Pyotr Pavlenko. Considered a classic of Stalin's times. He wrote scripts, 7 of which were subsequently filmed.
• 07.1899 (120) Ernest Hemingway. A classic of American and world literature, who had a great influence on its development in the twentieth century. Nobel Prize Laureate. About 15 film adaptations were created based on the works.
• 07.1929 (90) Vasily Shukshin. Winner of many awards, creator of works about ordinary Russian village people, workers, including detailed descriptions of everyday life. He acted in films, acted as a screenwriter and director.
• 07.1789 (230) Mikhail Zagoskin. At one time, a very popular creator of the first Russian historical novels.

August

August 2019 is especially generous for anniversaries:

• 08.1819 (200) Herman Melville. Writer from the USA. He gained universal recognition thanks to the novel “Moby Dick”.
• 08.1809 (210) Alfred Tennyson. Victorian lyricist. Queen Victoria was a great admirer of his sentimental and conservative work.

• 08.1959 (60) Alexander Gromov. Science fiction writer, winner of numerous awards.
• 08.1689 (330) Samuel Richardson. English founder of the movement of “sensual” works.
• 08.1939 (80) Sergei Kozlov. Wrote a fairy tale and a script for a cartoon about a hedgehog in the fog. Author of poems for a cartoon about a lion cub and a turtle.
• 08.1869 (150) Edgar Lee Masters. American creator of the “Spoon River Anthology”, which has an unusual form and consists of a set of epitaphs about the life of the inhabitants of a small town.
• 08.1899 (120) Jorge Luis Borges. The Argentine writer became famous for his skill in presenting serious philosophical problems in the form of prosaic fantasies. Founded the avant-garde movement of Spanish-language poetry in Latin America.
• 08.1949 (70) Nikolai Konyaev. Head of the Orthodox Society of Writers of St. Petersburg. Winner of many awards, including the Pikul Prize for the book “The True History of the House of Romanov.”
• 08.1949 (70) Martin Amis. English prose writer, Maugham Prize winner.
• 08.1909 (110) Caesar Solodar. Based on his words, a famous song about the Cossacks in Berlin appeared.
• 08.1899 (120) Cecil Forester. English creator of military historical works. He gained fame after the release of the adventure work about Horatio Hornblower. The creation “The African Queen” was filmed in 1951.
• 08.1899 (120) Andrey Platonov. A distinctive characteristic of the works is a special “original language”, including the deliberate use of “childish” reservations and errors.

• 08.1749 (270) Johann Wolfgang Goethe. A classic of German and world literature. The founder of the Weimar classicism movement. The tragedy “Faust” has brought worldwide recognition and popularity; it is a world-class masterpiece.
• 08.1749 (270) Alexander Radishchev. Published anonymously, “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” sold in huge quantities and even reached the empress, who called him a “rebel.”
• 08.1929 (90) Viktor Golyavkin. An artist whose popularity was brought by children's stories, which were published by such popular magazines as “Murzilka” and “Koster”.

September

Simultaneously with the beginning of the new academic year 2019, we can congratulate the following anniversaries:

• 09.1809 (210) Juliusz Słowacki. The great Polish lyricist of the Romantic era.
• 09.1769 (250) Boguslav Table. He founded the Department of the Slovak Language in Slovakia, as well as the Society of Czech-Slovak Culture and Language in order to publish school textbooks in Czech that everyone could understand. He published a lot as part of the activities of the society and the promotion of Czech-Slovak culture.
• 09.1869 (150) Felix Salten. Austro-Hungarian creator of the famous novel about the fawn Bambi, which was subsequently filmed several times.

• 09.1809 (210) Nestor Kukolnik. Founder of the dramatic poem movement. Creativity inspired 27 composers, including Glinka, to write music. He became a compiler of the texts of popular romances.
• 09.1789 (230) James Fenimore Cooper. A classic of American adventure prose. Already during his lifetime he became very popular in Russia after his works were translated into Russian.
• 09.1839 (180) Leonid Trefolev. He specialized in local history and historical essays.

October

In October, book lovers celebrate the birthdays of such famous authors:

• 10.1919 (100) Sergey Narovchatov. He published more than 40 books of both poetry and prose, mainly about the war.
• 10.1609 (410) Paul Fleming. The most famous poet of the German Baroque era. The work is distinguished by a special cheerfulness against the backdrop of the fragility of existence.
• 10.1899 (120) Alexey Surkov. Compiler of a large number of lyrics about the war, which later became popular, for example, “Chapaevskaya”, “In the Dugout” and others.
• 10.1809 (210) Alexey Koltsov. Poet, studied folklore, wrote about the life and work of ordinary peasants.

• 10.1869 (150) Johannes Linnankoski. Finnish creator of prose about the struggle between old and new, atonement, punishment. There have been 8 film adaptations of the work. He also published many socially useful articles, for example, on agriculture or speech techniques.
• 10.1929 (90) Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Writer from the USA, winner of many awards in the field of fantasy and science fiction. Her works touch upon sensitive socio-psychological topics such as communism, anarchism, interracial relations and others.

• 10.1919 (100) Doris May Lessing. English science fiction writer, Nobel Prize laureate, Doctor of Harvard University. She released a series of creations with images of alien gods, for which she was subjected to severe criticism.
• 10.1899 (120) Ilya Selvinsky. Krymchak poet, founder, head of the Constructivist Literary Society.
• 10.1959 (60) Neil Town Stevenson. Science fiction from America. A fan of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk trends in his works. Winner of several Hugo, Locus and other awards.

November

The end of autumn brings anniversaries of such writers:

• 11.1899 (120) Charles Edgard du Perron. Dutch lyricist in the style of modernism.
• 11.1909 (110) Antonina Koptyaeva. Winner of the Stalin Prize. She gained fame after the release of a trilogy about the life of a neurosurgeon.
• 11.1759 (260) Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller. Classic of German and world literature, philosopher. “Ode to Joy”, with some changes, became the text of the anthem of the European Union.
• 11.1929 (90) Heinrich Borovik. Screenwriter, novelist, winner of numerous awards, honorary rector of the Ostankino Institute.
• 11.1869 (150) Zinaida Gippius. Key poetess of the Silver Age. One film and a cartoon were made based on her works.

• 11.1869 (150) Andre Paul Guillaume Gide. French essayist, Nobel Prize winner. He had a great influence on the worldview of several generations of French people, thanks to his description of issues of personal freedom.
• 11.1849 (170) Frances Eliza Burnett. English prose writer.
• 11.1939 (80) Yuri Nikitin. Founded the movement of cogistics. Fan of Slavic fantasy. Poems turned into songs from the repertoire of modern musical groups.

December

Winter is especially rich in birthdays of children's writers and poets:

• 12.1907 (112) Zinaida Nikolaevna Alexandrovna. Children's poetess, author of the poems "Herringbone" and "Five from One Star".
• 12.1819 (200) Yakov Polonsky. Compiler of a large number of poetry collections and poems.
• 12.1937 (82) Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky. Children's writer, author of famous stories about Crocodile Gen and Cheburashka, beloved by many generations of stories about Uncle Fyodor and his friends from Prostokvashino.

• 12.1905 (114) Daniil Ivanovich Kharms. Soviet poet. Author of many poems for children and adults.
• 12.1865 (154) Joseph Rudder Kipling. The great storyteller and novelist who gave the world “Mowgli”, “The Jungle Book”, the story of the brave Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and a cat that walked by itself.

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The calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2017 contains anniversaries of domestic and foreign writers, poets, international and professional holidays and other significant dates that will be celebrated in 2017. Dates are indicated according to the new style.

According to the UN decision:

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

International decades

2015-2024 - International Decade for People of African Descent

2014-2024 - A decade of sustainable energy for all

2011-2020 - Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

2011-2020 - United Nations Decade of Biodiversity

2011-2020 - Decade of Action for Road Safety

2010-2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification

2008-2017 - Second decade of the United Nations for the eradication of poverty.

The year 2017 in the Russian Federation will be announced Year of specially protected natural areas. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on holding the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas in 2017. The Year of Protected Natural Areas will be timed to coincide with the celebration 100th anniversary of the Russian nature reserve system.

ANNIVERSARY DATES:

WRITERS AND BOOKS ANNIVERSARY OF 2017

ANNIVERSARY BOOKS

255 years- C. Gozzi "The Deer King", "Turandot"(1762)

240 years- R.B. Sheridan "School of Scandal"(1777)

225 years- N. M. Karamzin "Poor Lisa"(1792)

195 years- A. S. Pushkin "Song about the prophetic Oleg"(1822)

180 years- M. Yu. Lermontov "Borodino"(1837)

155 years- A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit" V. M. Hugo "Les Miserables" I. S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" (1862)

150 years- Charles De Coster “The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamm Gudzak, about their valiant, funny and glorious deeds in Flanders and other lands”, V. V. Krestovsky "Petersburg slums" F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", G. Ibsen "Peer Gynt"(1867)

145 years- I. S. Turgenev "Spring Waters" J. Verne "Around the world in 80 Days" (1872)

140 years- L. N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"(1877)

135 years- M. Twain "Prince and the Pauper"(1882)

120 years- G. D. Wells "Invisible Man"(1897)

115 years- A.C. Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles" E. L. Voynich "Gadfly" (1902)

110 years- G. R. Haggart "Beautiful Margaret"(1907)

105 years- A.C. Doyle "Lost World"(1912)

90 years old- A. N. Tolstoy "Engineer Garin's Hyperboloid" M. A. Bulgakov "White Guard"(1927)

85 years old- N. A. Ostrovsky "As the Steel Was Tempered"(1932)

80 years old- J. R. R. Tolkien "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" A. Christie "Death on the Nile"(1937)

65 years old- E. M. Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea"(1952)

60 years- R.D. Bradbury "Dandelion Wine" N. N. Nosov "Dreamers" M. V. Sholokhov "The Fate of Man" I. A. Efremov "Andromeda's nebula"(1957)

45 years- V. S. Pikul "Pen and Sword" A. N. Strugatsky , B. N. Strugatsky “Roadside Picnic”(1972)

40 years- V. S. Pikul "Battle of the Iron Chancellors"(1977)

30 years- A. N. Rybakov "Children of Arbat"(1987)

WRITERS-JUBILARIES

350 years

November 30th - 350 yearsJonathan Swift(1667-1745)

300 years

November 25 - 300 yearsAlexander Petrovich Sumarokov(1717-1777)

200 years

April 10th - 200 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, publicist Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov(1817-1860)

16th of May - 200 years on the birthday of the Russian historian and writer Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov(1817-1885)

September 29 - 200 yearsAlexander Vasilievich Sukhovo-Kobylin(1817-1903)

September 5 - 200 yearsAlexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy(1817-1875)

150 years

June 16 - 150 years-symbolist, translator, essayist, one of the most prominent representatives of Silver Age poetry Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont(1867-1942)

August 14 - 150 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer John Galsworthy(1867-1933)

100 years

21 December - 100 years, Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll(1917-1985)

December 16 - 100 years anniversary of the birth of the English science fiction writer Arthur Charles Clarke(1917)

JANUARY

January 3 - 125 years since the birth of the English writer - the founder of the literary genre of fantasy, poet and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)

January 15 - 395 years anniversary of the birth of the French playwright, reformer of performing arts Jean Baptiste Poquelin, stage name Moliere(1622-1673)

January 16 - 150 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, literary critic, translator Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev(1867-1945)

January 24 - 285 years on the birthday of the famous French playwright and publicist Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais(1732-1799)

The 25th of January - 135 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer and literary critic Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)

January 27 - 185 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer, mathematician, philosopher and photographer Lewis Carroll real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898)

January 27 - 85 years old on the birthday of the Russian poetess, author of popular songs Rimma Fedorovna Kazakova(1932-2008)

28 January - 120 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter, Hero of Socialist Labor Valentin Petrovich Kataev(1897-1986)

FEBRUARY

February 2 - 135 years anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer and poet James Joyce(1882-1941)

February 7 - 205 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Charles Dickens(1812-1870)

11 February - 100 years and screenwriter Sydney Sheldon real name Sidney Schechtel(1917-2007)

February 13 - 85 years oldIgor Davydovich Shaferan(1932-1994)

February 17 - 210 years on the birthday of the bishop, Russian theologian and spiritual writer Ignatius (Brianchaninova), in the world Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov(1807-1867)

February 20th - 165 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky(1852-1906)

24 February - 125 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, Hero of Socialist Labor Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin(1892-1977)

25 February - 100 years birthday of the English writer, critic Anthony Burgess ( 1917-1993)

25 February - 310 years on the birthday of the Italian playwright, creator of national comedy Carlo Goldoni ( 1707-1793)

February 26 - 215 years anniversary of the birth of the French romantic writer and playwright Victor Marie Hugo(1802-1885)

February 27 - 210 years anniversary of the birth of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)

February 27 - 115 yearsJohn Ernst Steinbeck(1902-1968)

28th of February - 95 years old since the birth of the Russian literary critic and culturologist Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman(1922-1993)

MARCH

5th of March - 95 years old on the birthday of the Soviet front-line poet Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko(1922-1953)

March 13 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Semenovich Makanin(1937)

March 15th - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian writer, representative of “village prose” Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin(1937-2015)

18th of March - 85 years old anniversary of the birth of the American writer John Updike(1932-2009)

18th of March - 175 years anniversary of the birth of the French symbolist poet Stefan Mallarmé(1842-1898)

March 24 - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Silych (Silantievich) Novikov-Priboi(1877-1944)

March 24 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, poet, publicist, editor Lidia Korneevna Chukovskaya(1907-1996)

March 27 - 220 years on the birthday of the French poet, writer, historian, playwright, translator, philosopher Alfred Victor de Vigny(1797-1863)

playwright Alexander Konstantinovich Gladkov(1912-1976)

March 31 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Vasilievich Grigorovich(1822-1899)

March 31 - 135 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, poet and literary critic Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky(1882-1969)

APRIL

April 1 - 320 years on the birthday of the French writer, author of adventure novels Antoine Francois Prevost ( 1697-1763)

April 6 - 205 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, philosopher and revolutionary Alexander Ivanovich Herzen(1812-1870)

April 10th - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian poetess, writer, translator Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina ( 1937-2010)

April 10th - 90 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vilya Vladimirovich Lipatov(1927-1979)

12th of April - 130 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess Elizaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva, better known by her pen name Cherubina de Gabriac(1887-1928)

April 19 - 115 years on the birthday of the Russian writer and screenwriter Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin(1902-1989)

April 22 - 310 years on the birthday of the English writer and playwright Henry Fielding(1707-1754)

April 22 - 110 years on the birthday of the outstanding Russian science fiction writer, paleontologist Ivan Antonovich Efremov(1907-1972)

MAY

may 13 - 80 years old anniversary of the birth of the American writer Roger Zelazny(1937-1995)

16th of May - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet of the Silver Age Igor Severyanin, real name Igor Vasilievich Lotarev ( 1897-1941)

May 21st - 145 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess and writer Teffi, real name Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya(1872-1952)

May 28 - 140 years since the birth of the Russian poet, literary critic, translator, artist Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin(1877-1932)

May 29 - 230 years since the birth of the Russian poet Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov(1787-1855)

May 29 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov(1892-1975)

May 30 - 105 years since the birth of the Soviet songwriter Lev Ivanovich Oshanin(1912-1996)

May 31 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky(1892-1968)

JUNE

June 18 - 205 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov(1812-1891)

June 18 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer and poet Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov(1907-1982)

June 20 - 85 years old since the birth of the Soviet poet, translator Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, birth name Robert Stanislavovich Petkevich(1932-1994)

21st of June - 220 yearsWilhelm Karlovich Kuchelbecker(1797-1846)

June 25 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian poet, translator Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky(1907-1989)

JULY

July 2 - 140 years on the birthday of the German writer, poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse(1877-1962)

July 6 - 120 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Borisovich Mariengof(1897-1962)

July 6 - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Mikhailovich Remizov ( 1877-1957)

July 22 - 210 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess and translator Karolina Karlovna Pavlova(1807-1893)

July 23 - 225 years since the birth of the Russian poet, literary critic Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky(1792-1878)

July 24 - 215 years on the birthday of the French writer, author of romantic historical dramas and adventure novels Alexandra Dumas(1802-1870)

July 28th - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet, literary and theater critic Apollo Alexandrovich Grigoriev(1822-1864)

July 28th - 120 years on the birthday of the Russian poet and prose writer Peter Vasilievich Oreshin(1887-1938)

A B G U S T

August 4 - 225 years on the birthday of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

10th of August - 105 years anniversary of the birth of the Brazilian writer, public and political figure Jorge Amadou(1912-2001)

August 19 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian playwright Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov(1937-1972)

August 20 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vasily Pavlovich Aksenov(1932-2010)

August 20 - 190 years anniversary of the birth of the Belgian French-speaking writer Theodore Henri de Coster ( 1827-1879)

August 27 - 140 years on the birthday of the Russian writer and poet Sergei Konstantinovich Makovsky(1877-1962).

August 30 - 220 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( 1797-1851)

SEPTEMBER

6 September - 80 years old since the birth of the Soviet screenwriter, director, poet Gennady Fedorovich Shpalikov ( 1937-1974)

11 September - 155 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer O.Henry, real name William Sydney Porter(1862-1910)

September 25 - 120 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer, Nobel laureate William Faulkner(1897-1962)

September 26 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich(1932)

September 29 - 470 years anniversary of the birth of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra(1547-1616)

September 30th - 810 years anniversary of the birth of the Persian Sufi poet Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammadt Rumi(1207-1273)

OCTOBER

October 3 - 120 years since the birth of the French poet, one of the founders of surrealism Louis Aragon(1897-1982)

The 4th of October - 170 years anniversary of the birth of the French writer Louis Henri Boussenard(1847-1910)

October 8 - 125 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess, prose writer, translator, the greatest poet of the 20th century Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva(1892-1941)

October 15 - 120 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf, at birth Yechiel-Leib Arievich Fainzilberg(1897-1937)

October 21 - 245 years anniversary of the birth of the English poet and critic Coleridge Samuel Taylor(1772-1834)

October 31 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer Evgeniy Andreevich Permyak(1902-1982)

NOVEMBER

the 3rd of November - 130 years since the birth of the Soviet poet and translator Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak(1887-1964)

November 6 - 165 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak(1852-1912)

10th of November - 130 years on the birthday of the German writer Arnold Zweig(1887-1968)

November 14 - 110 years anniversary of the birth of the Swedish children's writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, born Erickson ( 1907-2002)

November 17 - 210 years since the birth of the Russian poet Vladimir Grigorievich Benediktov(1807-1873)

20 November - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian writer Victoria Samoilovna Tokareva(1937)

November 27 - 70 years old since the birth of one of the most read and published Russian children's writers Grigory Bentsionovich Oster(1947).

November 28 - 260 years anniversary of the birth of the English poet, artist and engraver William Blake(1757-1827)

29th of November - 215 years on the birthday of the German writer Wilhelm Hauff(1802-1827)

DECEMBER

December 8 - 215 years since the birth of the Russian poet, Decembrist Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky(1802-1839)

December 10 - 195 years on the birthday of the Russian publicist and sociologist Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky(1822-1885)

December 13th - 220 years on the birthday of the German poet and publicist Heinrich Heine(1797-1856)

December 22 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky(1937)

admin 15.04.2016

Every year in the Russian Federation many significant and memorable dates are celebrated. 2018 was no exception. A huge number of writers, poets, literary critics and other cultural figures who are known throughout the world were born on the territory of our country. Every cultured and educated person in our great country, of course, notes anniversaries of poets and writers in 2018.

The activities of these people influenced the ideological consciousness of humanity, and possibly the historical course of events.

Some people confuse the concepts of “anniversaries” and “memorable” dates. They need to be clarified. Today, all over the world it is customary to celebrate an anniversary that is a multiple of five. For example, the 130th anniversary of the birth of Leonid Grossman will be celebrated on January 24, 2018, a famous literary critic, writer, also known as the creator of the ZhZL series of books, in which, by the way, he wrote about Pushkin and Dostoevsky.

Memorable dates include events that influenced the course of history of a country or even all of humanity.

Systematization of significant and anniversary dates of writers and poets can be proposed in different chronological order:

1. Distribution of dates by century or sequence of literary movements and movements. For example: first come the writers and poets of the Golden Age, and then the Silver Age.
2. Distribution of dates in the calendar sequence of 2018, starting from January and ending with December. In this case, the list may include writers and poets of the Renaissance and our contemporaries.

This article presents the second option of chronological order.

Domestic and foreign anniversaries in 2018

Among the poets and writers of the 2018 anniversary, there are a lot of famous, big names. These people worked at different times, in different parts of the world, and made a huge contribution to the heritage of pestilent culture and literature.

Domestic writers and poets

• On January 3, Alexander Bek will turn 115 years old, who managed to convey in his works the unique flavor of the reality of the times of the USSR.
• On January 25, singer and composer Vladimir Vysotsky could celebrate his eightieth birthday.

• On February 4, the Russian prose writer, writer and publicist Mikhail Prishvin will be 145 years old.
• February 10 marks the 80th anniversary of Georgy Weiner, a Soviet detective writer, screenwriter and editor.
• March 3 - 155 years have passed since the birth of one of the most prominent representatives of Russian symbolism - Fyodor Sologub.
• March 13 will mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Mikhalkov, a children's writer, poet, playwright, publicist and, not unimportantly, a war correspondent.

• March 16, 115 years old Tamara Gabbe is a famous literary critic, playwright, folklorist, editor, writer and translator.
• March 28 is the 150th anniversary of the writer, playwright, and prose writer Maxim Gorky.
• On July 12, Nikolai Chernyshevsky will turn 190 years old. He is known as a literary critic and writer.
• June 27 is the 165th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Korolenko, a Ukrainian and Russian writer.
• September 9 is the 190th anniversary of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, the great Russian writer.

• On September 9, Boris Zakhoder, a beloved children's writer, poet, translator and screenwriter, is exactly one hundred years old.
• On September 21, Antioch Cantemir, satirist and translator, was born 310 years ago.
• October 9. Mikhail Kheraskov is a poet, writer and playwright. 285 years have passed since his birth.
• November 6 is exactly 200 years old for Pavel Melnikov (Pechersky), a realist writer, ethnographer, fiction writer, and publicist.
• November 9 marks the bicentenary of Ivan Turgenev. Poet, realist writer, translator, playwright, publicist, classic of Russian literature.

• November 23 – Nikolai Nosov is 110 years old. The playwright and screenwriter is best known as a children's prose writer.
• On December 1, Victor Dragunsky turns 105 years old. A classic of Soviet children's literature, author of novels and short stories. His most popular series is Deniska's Stories.

Foreign artists

Russians honor and remember not only their compatriots, but also study foreign writers and poets. This worldwide list of anniversaries of writers and poets is quite huge, so only a small part of literary figures are highlighted in the article.

• January 22. 230 years have passed since the birth of the English romantic poet George Gordon Byron.

• January 23. The French writer, founder of the psychological novel, Stendhal, celebrates his 235th birthday.
• April 15. 175 years have passed since the birth of Henry James, an American writer.
• July 22. 120 years after the birth of the German writer Erich Maria Remarque.

• July 25. George Orwell, a British writer and publicist, author of the acclaimed dystopian novel “1984,” was born 115 years ago.
• June 3. 135 years ago, the German writer Franz Kafka was born, who, by the way, was of Jewish origin.
• July 30. The middle of the Brontë sisters, Emily, was born exactly 200 years ago. This is an English writer and poetess, author of the extraordinary novel Wuthering Heights.

• September 28. Master of the novel - Prosper Merimee was born 215 years ago. Writer of French origin and translator.

These dates will be celebrated in many educational institutions of the Russian Federation, somewhere in literary circles, in schools, in libraries, or perhaps in the home circle. At such events, the biography of these creative figures is remembered, their contribution to literature is studied, poetry and excerpts from prose works are read.

It is in this way that culture is instilled and ethical and aesthetic education is formed.

2018 is rich in significant dates (not only for literary figures). This year will give many impressions to people for whom creativity plays an important place in life.

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