Ramsey Zarifeh was born in Kent but has spent most of his working life outside the UK. In 1993 he took a year off to teach English in Germany and for a holiday job at Disneyland Paris before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated in English. He then spent two years in Japan, teaching on the JET programme.

He currently lives in Switzerland where he is a journalist at swissinfo – Swiss Radio International.

(Fonte trailblazer-guides.com)