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Barbara Potter
Fasting

Barbara Potter Fasting is an accomplished translator who currently resides in the Netherlands and has published a variety of book translations. Barbara earned a B.A. degree in Latin Literature from Georgian Court and an M.A. degree in translation studies from the University of Amsterdam. She attended the Instituut voor Vertaalkunde in Amsterdam and is certified Dutch-English by the American Translators Association and earned the state accreditation examination for Translator-Interpreter, The Hague.

Barbara Potter Fasting is an accomplished translator who currently resides in the Netherlands and has published a variety of book translations. Barbara earned a B.A. degree in Latin Literature from Georgian Court and an M.A. degree in translation studies from the University of Amsterdam. She attended the Instituut voor Vertaalkunde in Amsterdam and is certified Dutch-English by the American Translators Association and earned the state accreditation examination for Translator-Interpreter, The Hague.

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