Raphael Canossa was born in 1968, the year the Prague Spring was crushed. He is very mixed-race, his ancestors being Jewish, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian and German.He worked as a ...view moreRaphael Canossa was born in 1968, the year the Prague Spring was crushed. He is very mixed-race, his ancestors being Jewish, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian and German.He worked as a builder, a bricklayer, a welder, a wood-cutter (logger), a lathe operator, a bee-keeper, a stud-farm worker, a driver, a tourist guide, a book translator, a teacher of English as a foreign language and an art gallery manager. In the pre-Covid era he used to travel to European and Asian countries searching for inspiration and vivid details that inevitably found their way into the books he’s written, along with a love for various places dotting our globe, the people living there and their rich history and intricate stories. His intimate knowledge of life aspects of various Eastern European peoples and deep insight into their histories and cultures lets him create fascinating stories based on true events and real people’s fates.view less