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Eileen
Stevens and Anna Asbury

Eileen Stevens has many Dutch-to-English translation credits including Anna Enquist’s Homecoming, and a co-translation (with Anna Asbury) of Connie Palmen’s Your Story, My Story. A New Jersey native, Eileen spent twenty-five years working as a professional violinist in a Dutch orchestra before turning her attention to literary translation. 

Anna Asbury is a freelance translator of Dutch into English. Asbury specialises in literary and academic texts, as well as related editing and copy writing.

Eileen Stevens has many Dutch-to-English translation credits including Anna Enquist’s Homecoming, and a co-translation (with Anna Asbury) of Connie Palmen’s Your Story, My Story. A New Jersey native, Eileen spent twenty-five years working as a professional violinist in a Dutch orchestra before turning her attention to literary translation. 

Anna Asbury is a freelance translator of Dutch into English. Asbury specialises in literary and academic texts, as well as related editing and copy writing.

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