Early Life and Education
Hawes was born in 1960 and grew up in Gloucestershire. He graduated from Hertford College, Oxford and then worked as an English teacher in Spain. After a short stint as an archaeologist in Wales, he studied for a Ph.D. on Nietzsche and Kafka at University College, London in 1987. He lectured in Ireland between 1989 and 1991 before teaching German at the Swansea University.
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