Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018)

Renate Dorrestein is an internationally acclaimed author and one of Holland's best loved novelists. She was a journalist before writing her first novel, Outsiders, which was published in 1983. Her books have regularly appeared at the top of Dutch bestseller lists ever since. The recipient of numerous awards, her novels have been published in more than fifteen countries. She lives in the Netherlands Hester Velmans was born in the Netherlands and now lives outside New York City with her husband and two children. She has translated Edith's Story by Edith Velmans, The Lily Theater by Lulu Wang, and Dorrestein's A Heart of Stone, which received the prestigious Vondel Translation Prize — biography from Without Mercy… (lisätietoja)