Seve

Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros Sota was a Spanish professional golfer and a leading sports figure. He won more than 90 international tournaments in an illustrious career. He first caught the attention of the sporting world in 1976, when at the age of 19 he finished second at The Open. He played a leading role in the re-emergence of European golf, helping the European Ryder Cup team to five wins both as a player and captain. He won the World Match Play Championship a record-tying five times. He is generally regarded as the greatest Continental European golfer of all time and won a record 50 times on the European Tour. Ballesteros died of brain cancer on 7 May 2011, aged 54.

Peter Bush is an English literary translator. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1946. He earned a DPhil (the Oxford term for a PhD) in Spanish history and fiction from Oxford University. Bush has received a great number of awards for his translating work, including the 2015 La Creu de Sant Jordi, the most distinguished award given by the Generalitat of Catalonia, for the translation and promotion of Catalan literature. He has served on the editorial board of the Massachusetts Review since 2014.