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Petra Durst-Benning was born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in 1965. For more than twenty years, she has been writing bestselling historical and contemporary novels, including The Glassblower’s Trilogy, The Century Trilogy, and The Seed Traders’ Saga. Translated into several languages, Petra Durst-Benning’s novels have sold more than a million copies in English. She now lives with her husband and two dogs in the countryside south of Stuttgart. For more information, visit www.durst-benning.de.Edwin Miles has been translating in the film, television, and literary fields since 2002. Originally from Australia, he completed his MFA in fiction writing at the University of Oregon in 1995, where he worked as a fiction editor on the literary magazine Northwest Review. In 1996 he was short-listed for the prestigious Australian/Vogel Award for a collection of short stories. Miles’s translated works include Petra Durst-Benning’s The Century Trilogy and The Seed Trader’s Saga, Bernhard Hennen’s The Saga of Elvin, and Jonas Winner’s Berlin Gothic novels. After many years of living and working in Australia, Japan, and the United States, he now resides in Cologne, Germany, with his wife, Dagmar, and their children.