Lucy Scott, Denice Gravenstijn, and Annemarie Toebosch
Translator Lucy Scott graduated from the Dutch language program at the University of Michigan in 2014, continuing her path to acquisition of the language through literary translation. She was helped in her translation and analysis of Vamba Sherif’s short story “Flame Trees” by Denice Gravenstijn and Annemarie Toebosch. Gravenstijn is a sociologist specializing in immigration studies. Toebosch is the director of Dutch and Flemish Studies at the University of Michigan. Vamba Sherif is a global writer based in the Netherlands whose work has been translated into English, French, German, Malayalam, Polish, and Spanish. “Flame Trees” is his American debut.
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Flame Trees
Translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott and Denice Gravenstijn I was away for twenty years. A period in which I became an adult and in which the country where I sometimes felt out of place in many ways had proven itself to be my home. That country was Belgium, where I had ended […]