found: The Fischer-Dieskau book of lieder, 1984: CIP t.p. (George Bird)
found: Death and the penguin, 2002: t.p. (George Bird) prelim. (translator of Dostoevsky's The Double and with Richard Stokes, of The Fischer-Dieskau book of lieder; author of Death in Leningrad [by John Lear], 1986)
found: Arts Council of England online press release, Google search Apr. 3, 2003 (George Bird has translated Russian and German literature since 1957. In 1986, as John Lear, he won the Pluto Crime Prize for his novel Death in Leningrad)