Edith Velmans (F / Netherlands, 1925), Holocaust survivor

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Edith Velmans (F / Netherlands, 1925), Holocaust survivor.

Biography

Hester Velmans was born in the Netherlands in 1925, educated in Switzerland and England, and today lives in western Massachusetts. She is a translator specializing in contemporary Dutch and French literature. Her translation of Renate Dorrestein’s A Heart of Stone won the 2001 Vondel Prize; in 2014 she was awarded a U.S. National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship to translate the neglected novelist Herman Franke. She is the author of the popular children’s books Isabel of the Whales and Jessaloup’s Song, and a new novel, Slipper.

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