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List of translators
This is primarily a list of notable Western translators. Please feel free to add translators from other languages, cultures and areas of specialisation.
Translators into English
Literature
- Aubrey De Sélincourt
- Robin Waterfield
- Walter Blanco & Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
- George Rawlinson
- David Grene
Translators of other famous Classical authors
Translators of The Qur'an
Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics
Translators of Anglo-Saxon
- Tobias Smollett
- Charles Jarvis
- John Ormsby (later revised by Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas)
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- Samuel Putnam
- Walter Starkie
- J. M. Cohen - also a translator of French
- Burton Raffel - also a translator of Old English, Indonesian, Vietnamese
- John Rutherford
- Edith Grossman
Translators of Goethe
- Jessie Coulson
- David Magarshack
- Constance Garnett
- Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- David McDuff
- Ignat Avsey
Translators of Tolstoy
- David Magarshack
- Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
- Constance Garnett
- Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- Rosemary Edmonds
- Ann Dunnigan
Translators of Prus
Translators of Mann
Translators of Kafka
- Breon Mitchell
- Mark Harman
- Idris Parry
- Willa Muir & Edwin Muir
- Malcolm Pasley
- J. A. Underwood
Translators of Musil
- Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser
- Sophie Wilkins & Burton Pike
- Philip Payne
Translators of Proust
- Scott Moncrieff , Terence Kilmartin & D. J. Enright
- Christopher Prendergast , with Lydia Davis , Mark Treharne , James Grieve, John Sturrock , Carol Clark , Peter Collier , & Ian Patterson
- Joachim Neugroschel
Translators of Borges
- Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- Andrew Hurley
- Eliot Weinberger
- Alexander Coleman
- Suzanne Jill Levine
- Alastair Reid
Other notable translators of French
Other notable translators of German
Other notable translators of Italian
- Beryl de Zoete - translator of Svevo
- William Weaver - prodigious, acclaimed translator
- Stuart Woolf - translator of Levi
- Raymond Rosenthal - translator of Levi
- William Arrowsmith
- Jonathan Galassi
Other notable translators of Spanish
- Gregory Rabassa - prolific translator of Márquez, Cortazar and several others.
- Margaret Sayers Peden - translator of Quiroga , Neruda, Fuentes and several other Latin American writers.
Other notable translators of Russian
Other notable translators of Japanese
- Donald Keene
- Lucien Stryk & Takahashi Ikemoto
- Don Philippi - translator of Japanese and Ainu. Translated the Kojiki, also a noted technical translator.
Translators of Chinese
Multi-lingual translators
- Joachim Neugroschel - prolific multi-award winning translator of French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Russian
- Guido Waldman - French, Italian
- John Sturrock - French, Spanish
- John Wood - French, German
- W.S. Merwin - Greek, Spanish, Italian, Old English
- Anthea Bell - German, Polish
- Michael Henry Heim - Russian, Czech, German, Serbo-Croatian
- Ewald Osers - translator of Czech, German
- Burton Raffel - also a prolific and wide-ranging translator
- Ralph Manheim - prolific translator of both French and German writers - Grass, Céline , Remarque and several others.
Self-translators
(Authors who translated their own work into other languages)
Philosophy
Translators of Ancient Chinese classics
Translators of Ancient Indian classics
Translators of Hellenistic and Roman philosophers
- Benjamin Jowett
- Jonathan Barnes
- W. H. D. Rouse
- Hugh Tredennick
- G. M. A. Grube
- W. K. C. Guthrie
- F. M. Cornford
- E. R. Dodds
- C. D. C. Reeves
- W. R. M. Lamb
- John M. Cooper
- T. A. Sinclair
Translators of Aquinas
- Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Ralph McInerny
- Timothy McDermott
- Elizabeth Haldane, G.R.T. Ross
- Donald A. Cress
- John Cottingham , Robert Stoothoff & Dugald Murdoch
Translators of Spinoza
- Robert Harvey Monro Elwes
- Andrew Boyle
- George H. R. Parkinson
- Edwin Curley
- Samuel Shirley
Translators of Leibniz
- G. H. R. Parkinson
- Peter Remnant & Jonathan Bennett
Translators of Vico
- Thomas Goddard Bergin & Max Harold Fisch
Translators of Kant
Translators of Hegel
- J. Sibree
- T. M. Knox
- Arnold V. Miller
- Hugh Barr Nisbet
- T. Bailey Saunders
- E. F. J. Payne
- Alastair Hannay
- Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong
- John Macquarie & Edward Robinson
- Joan Stambaugh
Translators of Derrida
- Alan Bass
- Geoffrey Bennington
- Elizabeth Rottenberg
- Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak
- Thomas Dutoit
- Peggy Kamuf
Other translators
Other
- E. A. Wallis Budge - translated The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- W. Y. Evans-Wentz - translated or adapted numerous Tibetan Buddhist texts, including The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Charles Francis Atkinson - translated Spengler
Translators into languages other than English
French translators
German translators
Hebrew translators
Hispanic translators
Italian translators
- Italo Calvino - translated Raymond Queneau's Les fleurs bleus (The Blue Flowers)
- Ettore Capriolo - translated McLuhan, Camus, Rushdie
- Masolino D'Amico - translated Hemingway and other authors from English
- Carlo Linati - translated Joyce, Lawrence, Yeats, Synge, Dickens and Henry James
- Vincenzo Mantovani - translated works by William Faulkner, Henri 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
- Maria Napolitano Martone - translated works by Ernest Hemingway, Erskine Caldwell, Archibald Joseph Cronin, James M. Cain, Williama Somerset Maugham, John Fante, William Hudson, P.G. Wodehouse, Daphne De Maurier
- Cesare Pavese - translated Melville, Dickens and others
- Fernanda Pivano - translated 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
- Elio Vittorini - translated works by Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence and Edgar Allan Poe
Japanese translators
- Odajima Seisi - translator of Shakespeare
- Maruya Saiichi - translator of Joyce
- Mori Ogai - translator of Goethe and Andersen (from the German)
- Watanabe Kazuo - translator of French
- Matsudaira Chiaki - translator of Homer, Xenophon
Russian translators
Latin translators
See Also
Last updated: 10-15-2005 16:23:50
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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