Hester Velmans, Author at The Berkshire Edge

Hester Velmans

Hester Velmans is a novelist and prize-winning translator of literary fiction. Born in the Netherlands, she grew up tri-lingual, having lived in Paris, Geneva, London and New York. After a rewarding but stressful career in the magazine and TV news business, she moved to the Berkshires to write and translate full time. She is a 2015 NEA Translation Fellow and the author of two popular children’s books: Isabel of the Whales and Jessaloup’s Song.

Articles from Hester Velmans

Arts & Entertainment

POEM: Snowed In

A poem on being snowed in during the Nor'easter that buried much of Berkshire County and the surrounding area in feet of snow.

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Viewpoints

POEM: Richard III may have said it better

Not the fairy tale you remember.

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News

Loet Velmans honored at Hague on anniversary of daring escape from Nazis in 1940

Sheffield resident Loet Velmans, survivor of a daring escape from Holland in a lifeboat, aptly named The Seaman’s Hope on May 14, 1940, compared his own plight to that of today’s boat people in th

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News

Berkshire-based relief efforts seek donations to aid stricken Nepal

There are two organizations with roots right here in the Berkshires that already have boots on the ground in Nepal and are up and running, hard at work with crucial relief efforts. For those who woul

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Farm and Table

The science that cried wolf

So — enough with the food-pyramids and the nutrition admonitions. Don’t tell me how many glasses of this or ounces of that I’m supposed to consume, or the dire consequences if I don’t. From no

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