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This is primarily a list of notable
translators. Large sublists have been split off to separate articles.
By text
By target language
Into Albanian
Into Arabic
Into Armenian
Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)
Into Bulgarian
Into Catalan
Into Chichewa/Chinyanja
Into Chinese
Into Czech
Into English
Into Fijian
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Mary Ann Lyth (1811–1890) – English missionary, translator, teacher
Into Finnish
Into French
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Étienne Aignan
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Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of
Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by
Sir Thomas North
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E. S. Ariel – translator of the
Kural
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Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of
Edgar Allan Poe
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Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry
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Rose Celli – translated English works into French including
Not So Quiet by
Evadne Price
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Chateaubriand – translator of
Milton's epic poem
Paradise Lost into French prose
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Joséphine Colomb – translator from Italian
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Marie De Cotteblanche (
c. 1520 – c. 1584) – French noble woman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French
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Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac – translator of works by
Alexander Pope and
James Macpherson
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Anne Dacier – translator of classical Greek works
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Alain Daniélou – translator of the Kural,
Silappathikaram,
Manimekalai and other works
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Augustine De Rothmaler – translator of
Johannes V. Jensen's Histoires du Himmerland
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Gnanou Diagou – translator of the Kural
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Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – translator of travel and geography works, and
Fantasmagoriana
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Antoine Galland – translator of the first European edition of the
Arabian Nights
- François Gros – translator of the
Paripatal (part of the
Eight Anthologies)
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Jean Hyppolite – translator of
Hegel and popularized his work
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Louis Jacolliot – translator of the Kural
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Georges Jean-Aubry
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Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse – translator of the Kural,
Kamasutra and other Indian works
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Marie Léra – translator of
Brewster's Millions
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Leconte de Lisle – translator of classical Greek authors
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Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune – translator of medical and philological works into French
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Stéphane Mallarmé – translator of the poetry of
E. A. Poe
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J. C. Mardrus – translator of the Arabian Nights
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Lucie Paul-Margueritte – translator of
Dracula
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Nadine Ribault – translator of The Lagoon and Other Stories by
Janet Frame
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Madeleine Rolland, translator of
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Boris Vian – translator of
The Big Sleep by
Raymond Chandler as Le grand sommeil (1948),
The Lady in the Lake by
Raymond Chandler as La dame du lac (1948),
The World of Null-A by
A. E. van Vogt, as Le Monde des Å (1958)
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Martina Wachendorff – translator from German and Hungarian
Into Galician
Into German
Into Greek
Into Gujarati
Into Hebrew
Into Hindi
Into Interlingua
Into Italian
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Italo Calvino – translator of
Raymond Queneau's Les fleurs bleues (The Blue Flowers)
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Ettore Capriolo – translator of
McLuhan,
Camus,
Salman Rushdie
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Eduardo De Filippo – translator of
Shakespeare's The Tempest into 18th century Neapolitan
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Vincenzo Mantovani – translator of works by
William Faulkner,
Henry Miller,
Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie,
Saul Bellow,
Malcolm Lowry,
Charles Bukowski,
Isaac Asimov,
Richard Ford,
William Gaddis,
John Updike,
Norman Mailer,
Bernard Malamud,
Jerzy Kosinski and others
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Grazyna Miller – translator of
Pope John Paul II's Roman Triptych: Meditations from Polish into Italian
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Cesare Pavese – translator of
Melville,
Dickens and others
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Fernanda Pivano – translator of works by
Ernest Hemingway,
Edgar Lee Masters,
Francis Scott Fitzgerald,
William Faulkner,
Thornton Wilder,
Allen Ginsberg,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Gregory Corso and many other English-language authors
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Elio Vittorini – translator of works by Ernest Hemingway,
William Saroyan,
John Steinbeck,
Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner,
D. H. Lawrence and
Edgar Allan Poe
Into Japanese
Into Juhuri
Into Kannada
Into Konkani
Into Latin
Into Malayalam
Into Marathi
Into Meitei
Into Nepali
Into Odia
Into Persian
Into Polish
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Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński – prolific translator of French
classic literature; murdered by the
Nazis
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Stanisław Czerski – translator of the fables of
Phaedrus
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Ignacy Krasicki – translator of
Plutarch and
Ossian
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Bolesław Leśmian – poet who translated the tales of
Edgar Allan Poe
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Maciej Słomczyński – translator of
James Joyce's
Ulysses and of the complete works of
Shakespeare
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Robert Stiller – prolific translator of
classic and
contemporary literature, from a score of languages,
European as well as
Oriental
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Władysław Syrokomla – translator of Latin, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian poets, including works by
Béranger,
Goethe,
Heine,
Lermontov,
Nekrasov and
Shevchenko
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Julian Tuwim – translator of
Alexander Pushkin and other Russian poets
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Adam Ważyk – translator of
Alexander Pushkin's
Eugene Onegin
Into Portuguese
Into Punjabi
Into Russian
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Ivan Bunin – translator of
The Song of Hiawatha
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Alexander Druzhinin – translator of several of
Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of
George Crabbe
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J. J. Glazov – translator of the
Kural and the
Cilappatikaram
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Nikolay Gnedich – made the classical translation of
The Iliad
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Tatiana Gnedich – translated Lord Byron's
Don Juan (from memory)
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Viktor Golyshev – translator of
Light in August,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
All the King's Men,
Theophilus North,
1984,
Other Voices, Other Rooms,
Set This House on Fire,
Pulp and other books; he mostly worked on American literature
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Mikhail Lozinsky – made the classical translation of
The Divine Comedy
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Samuil Marshak – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works
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Aleksey Mikhalyov – translator of
John Steinbeck's
East of Eden and many other authors, as well as numerous films and cartoons
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Midori Miura – translator of Non-chan kumo ni noru by
Momoko Ishii
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Vladimir Nabokov – translator of
Alice in Wonderland and
Lolita
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Boris Pasternak – translator of
Faust and
Hamlet
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Rita Rait-Kovaleva – translator of
The Catcher in the Rye and other works, including those by
William Faulkner,
Franz Kafka and
Heinrich Böll
Into Sanskrit
Into Saurashtra
Into Spanish
Into Swahili
Into Swedish
Into Tamil
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