Samuel Pakucs Willcocks studied German and Czech in Cambridge and has lived variously in Ljubljana, Philadelphia, Paris and Berlin until he settled in the multi-cultural city of Cluj, Romania. In 2010 he won the inaugural German Embassy Award, London, for translation. He has been a freelance translator, working from four East and Central European languages into English. In 2014 he received a grant from the Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung to support the translation of Werner Bräunig’s novel “Rummelplatz”, once suppressed by the East German Communist government. In 2015 Samuel Pakucs Willcocks passed away.