The writer and translator Asar Eppel died

The writer and translator Asar Eppel died at the 78th year of his life in the Moscow City Hospital after a stroke. As reports RIA Novosti, the publisher Sergei Parkhomenko announced this. “He was in a coma for several days, the condition worsened, and, unfortunately, everything was resolved in this way,” said Parkhomenko. Eppel felt bad on February 11, he was delivered to the cardiological department of the 61st Moscow City Hospital, and doctors diagnosed a stroke. Then the writer fell into a coma.

Asar Eppel was born on January 11, 1935 in Moscow. In 1952, he entered the Moscow Engineering Institute named after Kuibyshev. During his studies, he took part in the waist of the Moscow Region. It was first published in 1956 - in the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets, its note was printed. Then he collaborated in newspapers and on the radio, wrote poetry.

At the end of the Asar Institute, Eppel worked for the year as a master at a construction site. Among his translations are the works of Petrarch, Bokkaccio, Senkevich, Brecht, Kipling, Bruno Shulz, as well as Scottish ballads, Serbian songs by Vuka Karadzhich. The publishing house "Children's Literature" was his book "Storm !!!", as well as a retelling of the novel "Anechka-Jellych and Solomenny Hubert."

The first story of the writer was published in 1990 in the almanac "April". According to the "Odessa sunset" and "sunset" Isaac Babel Eppel wrote a libretto with poems "Bindyuzhnya and King". This musical, set first on the stage of the Riga Theater of Russian Drama in 1987, then went on many theater venues.

In 1989, director Vladimir Alenikov transferred the musical to the screen, Armen Dzhigarkanyan, Zinovy ​​Gerdt, Maxim Leonidov, Irina Rozanova, Raisa Nedushkovskaya played roles in it. In the mid-1990s, Eppel's stories "Herbal Street" and "Champignon of my life" were published.