Songs from the Wind

Gino Leineweber was born in 1944 and has been working as a poet, writer, and translator since 1998. He lives in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, and Hamburg, Germany. He led the Hamburg Authors' Association for twelve years and was appointed honorary chairman in 2015. In between, he was the editor of Buddhist Monthly Magazine (Buddhistische Monatsblätter) for six years. From 2013 to 2020, he was president of the Three Seas Writers' and Translators' Council, based in Rhodes, Greece. He is currently a board member of the PEN Center German-Speaking Authors Abroad (formerly German Exile PEN). He is publishing non-fiction (travel writing and biographies) and poetry, which has won numerous international awards. He writes in German and American English; since 2016, he has translated prose and poetry from English.