Background
Eppel was born in Ostankino, a suburb of Moscow.
linguist novelist translator writer
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. Eppel died, aged 77, in Moscow.