Frame 07-08

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InOtherWords (D’Laine Camp,
Maria van Tol)

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Translation
InOtherWords (Maria van Tol)

Contributors to this issue
Tag Christof – TC
John Jervis – JJ
Eric Kelsey – EK
Shonquis Moreno – SM
Alexandra Onderwater – AO
Jane Szita – JS
Suzanne Wales – SW
Daniela Walker – DW
Michael Webb – MW

Cover
One-Off Woman by Dimore Studio
(see p. 100) Photo Paola Pansini

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Last Words

For the first time in 20 years, we’ve had to make an issue

of Frame without our beloved translator and copy editor

Donna de Vries-Hermansader. She was diagnosed with

cancer four years ago. After a short period of uncertainty

she made up her mind to fight for her life. In the time she

had left, she continued to do what she’d been doing for

us since the late 1990s: translating texts from Dutch into

English and polishing the original English contributions

of Japanese, German and French authors until they, too,

could pass for those of native English speakers.

At the beginning of our collaboration we gave

her only one assignment: feel free to represent the

intentions of authors as best you can. This is not the

same thing as translating texts as literally as possible.

As a result of this brief she sometimes met with

resistance from writers, but Frame readers enjoyed the

same pleasant tone of voice year in, year out. We also got

to know Donna as an unparalleled language purist who

taught us, for example, what a dangling construction

is and what the differences are between American and

British English (Donna was born in the US, but for

Frame she wrote in British). Once a text was done, her

husband Danny would read it to her out loud so she

could make sure it sounded good.

More than just our translator, Donna was our

friend. Although she and Danny lived at a three-hour

drive from Amsterdam — just outside of Brussels — we

knew exactly when she walked her dogs, watched sports

matches on TV and had children and grandchildren about

the house. Conversely, Donna knew our birthdays, where

we went on holiday and how our partners were doing.

After working on the previous issue of Frame

with her usual vigour, she shortly afterwards lost

the desire to work and thus to live. She was briefly

bedridden before she passed on, surrounded by her

loved ones. We have lost an incredibly sweet, intelligent

and humorous person. Donna lived to be 77 years old.

Frame copy editor Donna de Vries-Hermansader travelled from her

home in Belgium to our former office in Amsterdam in 2014.

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