[1] Eppel was born in Ostankino, a suburb of Moscow.

He studied architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineering.

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.

[2][3] His works of fiction include the story The Grassy Street (1996) and the novel The Mushroom of My Life (2001).

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