“Dear friends, Evgeni Vitkovsky, Zhenya Vitkovsky, are not with us. He died today at 6 p.m. on February 3, ”she wrote on her Facebook.
The poet was hospitalized in the Botkin hospital, where he was in serious condition.
Witkowski has published translations of poetry from English (Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling), German (Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodore Kramer), French (Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valerie) and other languages.
Vitkovsky was also an expert at the Russian Translators Union and was a member of the Russian Writers Union.
In November, the death of writer and poet Igor Sakhnovsky was reported.