Miguel Wandenbergh is also translator of Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, finalist to the 1996 Noma Prize for "El grito silencioso" from the Japanese, and two other novels by the same author. Has also translated Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, and is waiting for the time to publish his direct translations from the Japanese.<br>Born in Spain in 1956, he is retiring from his main profession after working for Philips Nederland, AT&T, The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Allied Signal, Yakult Nederland and AMES Sintering, and will dedicate himself to literature for the rest of his life.<br>Miguel has an outstanding command of Spanish, English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, and Japanese, and reads Korean and Chinese. He is also a motorcycle and car buff, still plays tennis at competition level, and is now living in Castellón, Spain.<br>
