Nikos Gatsos was born in Arcadia in 1914, and educated in Athens from the age of 16, studying Literature, Philosophy and History at Athens University. Well versed in English, French and Spanish, he translated poetry and plays by Lorca, O'Neill, Strindberg, Lope de Vega, Genet and Tennessee Williams into Greek. He died in 1992.Sally Purcell (1944-1998) was the author of three collections of poetry and a posthumous 'Collected Poems', published by Anvil in 2002. A specialist in mediaeval literature, she edited selections of George Peele and Charles d'Orleans and was the translator of a selection of 'Provencal Poems'.