Eppel was born in
Ostankino, a suburb of
Moscow. He studied architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineering. He worked as a translator in the
Soviet Union, being unable to publish his fictional works under the Soviet Government. He translated
Bruno Schulz and
Wisława Szymborska from the Polish, the foreign language he is most proficient in, and poems from
Petrarch,
Boccaccio,
Rudyard Kipling and
Berthold Brecht. His works of fiction include the story
The Grassy Street (1996) and the novel
The Mushroom of My Life (2001). Eppel died, aged 77, in Moscow. ==English translations==