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{{Short description|none}} This is primarily a list of notable [[Translation|translators]]. Large sublists have been split off to separate articles. ==By text== *[[List of Bible translators]] *[[List of translations of the Qur'an|List of Qur'an translators]] *[[List of Tirukkural translators|List of ''Kural'' translators]] *[[List of translators of William Shakespeare]] *[[List of translations of Beowulf|List of translations of ''Beowulf'']] *[[Translations of The Hobbit|Translations of ''The Hobbit'']] *[[List of translations of The Lord of the Rings|List of translations of ''The Lord of the Rings'']] *[[List of Harry Potter translations|List of ''Harry Potter'' translations]] ==By target language== === Into Afrikaans === * [[Kobus Geldenhuys]] – translator of children's literature including works by [[Cressida Cowell]], [[J. K. Rowling]], [[C. S. Lewis]], [[Roald Dahl]], [[Michael Morpurgo]] and [[David Walliams]] * [[Uys Krige]] – translator of [[Latin American poetry]] by [[Vicente Huidobro]], [[Jorge Carrera Andrade]], [[Nicolás Guillén|Nicolas Guillen]], [[César Vallejo|Cesar Vallejo]], [[Jorge de Lima]] and [[Manuel Bandeira]] * [[Elizabeth Weber]] – translator of children's literature including ''[[Black Beauty]]'' by [[Anna Sewell]] and ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' by [[Daniel Defoe]] among others * [[Reza de Wet]] – translator of the play [[Three Sisters (play)|''Three Sisters'']] by [[Anton Chekhov]] === Into Albanian === *[[Mirela Kumbaro]] *[[Vangjel Meksi]] – translated the first version of the ''[[Bible]]'' into Albanian *[[Fan Noli]] – translator of world literature *[[Robert Shvarc]] – translator of works by [[Bertolt Brecht]], [[Lion Feuchtwanger]], [[Gabriel García Márquez]] and [[Erich Maria Remarque]] among others *[[Petro Zheji]] – translator of works by [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], [[Denis Diderot]], [[Ivan Goncharov]] and [[John Steinbeck]] among others ===Into Arabic=== *[[Ibn al-Muqaffa']] – translator of [[Porphyry (philosopher)|Porphyry]]'s ''[[Isagoge]]'' *[[Simin Daneshvar]] – translator of works by [[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]], [[Anton Chekhov]], [[Alan Paton]], [[William Saroyan]] and [[George Bernard Shaw]] among others *[[Rifa'a el-Tahtawi]] – translator from French *[[Taha Hussein]] – translator of [[Sophocles]] and [[Jean Racine]] among others *[[Hafs ibn Albar]] – translator of the ''Bible'' *[[Hafez Ibrahim]] – translator of ''[[Les Misérables]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]] *[[Anbara Salam Khalidi]] – translator of the ''[[Odyssey]]'' by [[Homer]] and ''[[Aeneid]]'' by [[Virgil]] *[[Muhsin al-Ramli]] – translator of ''[[Don Quixote]]'' by [[Miguel de Cervantes]] *[[:ru:Хаба, Абдулла|Abdulla Haba]] – leading translator of Russian literature into Arabic, winner of the [[Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding]] ===Into Armenian=== *[[Levon Ananyan]] – translator of [[Ray Bradbury]]'s ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' *[[Vahagn Davtyan]] – translator of the works of [[Alexander Pushkin]], [[Sergei Yesenin]], [[Sándor Petőfi]] and [[Alexander Blok]] *[[Vahan Malezian]] *[[Hovhannes Masehyan|Hovhannes Masehian]] – translator of Shakespeare's of ''[[Hamlet]]'' *[[Torkom Manoogian]] – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets *[[Nahapet Rusinian]] – translator of [[Frédéric Bérat]]'s French poem [[Ma Normandie|''Ma Normandie'']] *[[Hamo Sahyan]] *[[Vardges Sureniants]] – translator of Shakespeare's [[Richard III (play)|''Richard III'']] *[[Alexander Tsaturyan|Alexander Tsaturian]] *[[Rita Vorperian]] ===Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)=== *[[Hamlet Isaxanli (Isayev)]] – translator of poems from Russian, English and French *[[Mirza Khazar]] – translator of the ''Bible'' ===Into Bengali=== * [[Kabir Chowdhury]] * [[Alokeranjan Dasgupta]] – translator of literature from German and French * [[Zohurul Hoque]] – translator of the ''[[Quran|Qu'ran]]'' * [[Hana Catherine Mullens]] – translator of [[Charlotte Maria Tucker]]'s ''Daybreak in Britain'' * [[Hana Preinhaelterová]] – translator from Czech * [[Girish Chandra Sen]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' * [[Jyotirindranath Tagore]] ===Into Bulgarian=== *[[Albena Bakratcheva]] – translator of works by [[Patricia Highsmith]], [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], [[Wole Soyinka]] and [[Henry David Thoreau]] *[[Valeri Petrov]] – translator of Shakespeare's ''Comedies'' *[[Nikolai B. Popov]] – translator of poetry by [[Paul Celan]] ===Into Catalan=== *[[Xenia Dyakonova]] – translator of works from Russian *[[Mikel de Epalza]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' *[[Quim Monzó]] – translator of works by [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Truman Capote]], [[Roald Dahl]], [[Harvey Fierstein]], [[Arthur Miller]] and [[Mary Shelley]] among others ===Into [[Chewa language|Chichewa]]/[[Chinyanja]]=== *[[Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga]] – translator of ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' by [[Chinua Achebe]] ===Into Chinese=== *[[Lucy Chao]] – translator of ''[[The Waste Land]]'' by [[T. S. Eliot]], ''[[The Song of Hiawatha]]'' by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] and ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'' by [[Walt Whitman]] *[[Chen Liangting]] – translator of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' by [[C. S. Lewis]], ''[[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The Maltese Falcon]]'' by [[Dashiell Hammett]] and ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]] *[[Lucifer Chu]] – translator of fantasy novels including the ''[[Dragonlance Chronicles|Dragonlance Chronicle]]'' by [[Margaret Weis]] and ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] *[[Fu Lei]] – translator of works by [[Honoré de Balzac]], [[Romain Rolland]], [[Bertrand Russell]] and [[Voltaire]] *[[Huang Ai]] – translator of ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] *[[Jiang Feng (translator)|Jiang Feng]] – translator of poetry works by [[Emily Dickinson]] and [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]; winner of the [[Lu Xun Literary Prize]] *[[Ma Zhencheng]] – translator of works by [[Michel de Montaigne]], [[Milan Kundera]], [[André Gide]], [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] and [[Marguerite Duras]] *[[Mei Yi (translator)|Mei Yi]] – translator of ''[[How the Steel Was Tempered]]'' by [[Nikolai Ostrovsky]] *[[Ren Rongrong]] – translator of Italian [[Fairy tale|fairy tales]] and children's literature *[[Song Zhaolin]] – translator of ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' by [[Charlotte Brontë]] and ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' and ''[[David Copperfield]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] *[[Sun Zhili]] – translator of works by [[Jane Austen]] and [[Ernest Hemingway]] *[[Wang chong (director)|Wang Chong]] *[[Wang Weike]] – translator of [[Dante]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy|Divina Commedia]]'' (rendered indirectly from French) *[[Wen Jieruo]] – translator from English and Japanese *[[Xiang Xingyao]] – translator of the works of the Russian writer [[Alexander Herzen]] *[[Yang Jingyuan]] – translator of works by Charlotte Brontë and [[Emily Brontë]] *[[Yu Hsi]] – translator of the ''[[Kural]]'' *[[Zi Zhongyun]] – translator of ''Civil Servant'' by [[Honoré de Balzac]], ''Philosophy'' by [[Alain de Botton]], ''Oh, the Pioneer'' and ''The Bohemia Girl'' by [[Willa Cather]] and ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' by [[Robert James Waller]] ===Into [[Comanche language|Comanche]]=== * [[Tomassa]] ===Into Croatian=== * [[Krešimir Ćosić]] – translator of the [[Book of Mormon]] and [[Doctrine and Covenants]] * [[Zlatko Crnković (translator)|Zlatko Crnković]] – translator of literature from German, English, Russian and French * [[Antun Dalmatin]] – translator of [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Liturgy|liturgical]] books * [[Stefan Geosits]] – translator of the ''Bible'' * [[Nada Klaić]] – translator from Latin * [[Željka Markić]] – translator of works by [[Roy Gutman]] and [[John Grisham]] * [[Mandali Mendrilla]] – translator of the [[Hindu epics]] from Sanskrit ===Into Czech=== *[[Jaroslava Moserová]] – translator of over forty books by [[Dick Francis]] *[[Anna Řeháková]] – translator of German women's novels *[[Kamil Zvelebil|Kamil V. Zvelebil]] – translator of the ''Kural'' and other ancient Tamil works *[[Zora Wolfová]] – translator of works by [[Charles Darwin]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Nora Ephron]], [[Martha Grimes]], [[Doris Lessing]], [[Alan Marshall (Australian author)|Alan Marshall]], [[Vance Palmer]], [[C. Northcote Parkinson|Cyril Northcote Parkinson]], [[Edith Pargeter|Ellis Peters]], [[Katharine Susannah Prichard]], [[Arthur Ransome]] and [[Margaret Yorke]] among others === Into Danish === * [[Solvej Balle]] – translator of [[Rosmarie Waldrop]]'s ''The Reproduction of Profiles'' * [[Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen]] – translator of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s books * [[Daisy Schjelderup]] – translator of [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby Dick]]'', [[Virginia Woolf]]'s ''[[A Room of One’s Own]]'', [[Mario Puzo]]'s ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]'', [[Emily Brontë]]'s ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'', and [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[Kiss Kiss (book)|Kiss Kiss]]'' ===Into Dutch=== * [[Kader Abdolah]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' * [[Anneke Brassinga]] – translator of works by [[George Orwell]], [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Patricia Highsmith]], [[W.H. Auden]], [[Hermann Broch]], [[Jean Jacques Rousseau]], [[Marcel Proust]] and [[Jules Verne]] * [[Daniël de Clercq]] – translator of [[Eduard Baltzer]] * [[Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld]] – translator of [[Ludwig Philippson]]'s oratio ''Mose auf Nebo,'' [[Grace Aguilar]]'s ''Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings'' and a series of Norwegian articles by [[Henrik Wergeland]] * [[Caroline van der Hucht-Kerkhoven]] – translator of [[Anna Kingsford]] and Eduard Baltzer * [[Max Schuchart]] – translator of English novels by [[Daniel Defoe]], [[Terry Goodkind]], [[William Horwood (novelist)|William Horwood]] and [[Salman Rushdie]] among others ===Into English=== *[[List of translators into English]] === Into [[Esperanto]] === * [[Muztar Abbasi]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' * [[Ujaku Akita]] – translator of Japanese works by Junko Sibata and Haĵime Ŝuzui * [[Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova]] – translator of Ukrainian works by [[Taras Shevchenko]], [[Ivan Franko]], [[Lesya Ukrainka]], [[Maksym Rylsky]], [[Oles Honchar]], [[Ivan Drach]] and [[Yevhen Hutsalo]] * [[William Auld]] – translator of English works by [[Edward FitzGerald (poet)|Edward Fitzgerald]], [[Christopher Fry]], [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]], [[Jack London]], J. R. R. Tolkien, and [[Oscar Wilde]] amongst others * [[Gerrit Berveling]] – translator of the ''[[Book of Numbers]]'' * [[Louise Briggs]] – translator of William Shakespeare's works and children's songs * [[Hendrik Bulthuis]] – translator of ''[[Les Deux Billets]]'' by [[Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian]], ''[[The Lion of Flanders (novel)|The Lion of Flanders]]'' by [[Hendrik Conscience]] and ''Jane Eyre'' by Charlotte Brontë among others * [[Carlo Minnaja]] – translator of ''[[The Mistress of the Inn]]'' by [[Carlo Goldoni]] and the poems of [[Cesare Pavese]] * [[Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer]] – translator of English hymns * [[Jenny Weleminsky]] – translator of works by [[Franz Grillparzer]], [[Anastasius Grün]] and [[Alexander Roda Roda]] * [[L. L. Zamenhof]] – translator of the [[Hebrew Bible]] (known to Christians as the [[Old Testament]]) === Into Estonian === * [[Viiu Härm]] – translator of Latvian poetry * [[Anton thor Helle]] – translator of the ''Bible'' * [[Doris Kareva]] – translator of works by [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[W. H. Auden]], and [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Joseph Brodsky]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Kahlil Gibran]], [[Kabir]] and Shakespeare * [[Anne Lill]] – translator of classic works by [[Apuleius]], [[Aristophanes]], [[Aristotle]] and [[Euripides]] and of philosophical works by [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and [[Leonid Stolovich]]. * [[Minni Nurme]] – translator from English and Finnish * [[Ants Oras]] – translator of works by [[Alexander Pope]], [[Alexander Pushkin]], Shakespeare and [[Virgil]] * [[Ly Seppel]] – translator of a selection of stories from ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]'' and of song lyrics from Turkic languages, Russian and Finnish * [[Enn Soosaar]] – translator of works by [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[William Faulkner]] and [[Saul Bellow]] * [[Haljand Udam]] – translator of [[Omar Khayyam]]'s [[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam|''Rubaiyat'']] and works by [[Rudaki]], [[Saadi (poet)|Saadi]] and [[Abubacer|Ibn Tufail]] ===Into Faroese=== * [[Heðin Brú]] – translator of works by [[Emily Brontë]], [[Anton Pavlovich Chekhov]], [[Henrik Ibsen]] and [[Astrid Lindgren]] among others * [[Jákup Dahl]] – translator of the ''Bible'' * [[Hanus Kamban]] – translator of ancient Greek writer [[Longus|Longos]] ===Into Fijian=== * [[Paul Geraghty]] – translator of the ''Kural'' * [[Mary Ann Lyth]] – missionary, translator, teacher ===Into Finnish=== * [[Pentti Aalto]] – translator of the ''Kural'' * [[Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' * [[Wilhelmiina Arpiainen]] * [[Kersti Juva]] – translator of ''The Lord of the Rings'' by J. R. R. Tolkien trilogy and ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' by [[Laurence Sterne]] * [[Jaana Kapari-Jatta]] – translator of works by [[Roald Dahl]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]], J. K. Rowling and Oscar Wilde * [[Eeva-Liisa Manner]] – translator of works by [[Lewis Carroll]], [[Hermann Hesse]], and [[Franz Kafka]] * [[Sampsa Peltonen]] – translator from Arabic and French * [[Eila Pennanen]] * [[Tyyni Tuulio]] – translator of works by [[Louisa May Alcott]], Charlotte Brontë and [[Fredrika Runeberg]] === Into French === *[[List of translators into French]] ==== Into [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman French]] ==== * [[Marie de France]] – translator of [[Aesop's Fables]] from [[Middle English]] === Into Galician === * [[Fátima Rodríguez]] === Into German === *[[Zoë Beck]] – translator of several works by [[Pippa Goldschmidt]] and others, as well as popular television series *[[August Friedrich Caemmerer]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Margaret Carroux]] – translator of [[Leopold Trepper]] and J. R. R. Tolkien *[[Svetlana Geier]] – translator of works by [[Tolstoi|Tolstoy]], [[Mikhail Bulgakov|Bulgakov]] and [[Solzhenitsyn]] from Russian *[[Luise Gottsched]] – translator of ''[[The Spectator (1711)|The Spectator]]'' (9 volumes, 1739–1743), ''[[The Rape of the Lock|Rape of the Lock]]'' by [[Alexander Pope]] and other English and French works *[[Karl Graul]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Markus Hediger]] – translator of the novels of Swiss writer [[Alice Rivaz]] and the poems of [[Nicolas Bouvier]] *[[Henny Koch]] – first translator of ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' by [[Mark Twain]] in 1890 *[[Wolfgang Krege]] – translator of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]] and works by [[Amélie Nothomb]] *[[Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont]] – medieval translator of four French [[Romance (heroic literature)|romances]] (''[[Chanson de geste|chansons de geste]]'') by [[Odo Arpin of Bourges]], Sibille, Loher & Maller and Hug Chapler *[[Cläre Mjøen]] – translator of [[Knut Hamsun]]'s travel writing and short stories, along with works by other Nordic writers *[[Friedrich Rückert]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[August Wilhelm Schlegel]] – translator of Shakespeare *[[Eleanor of Scotland]] – medieval translator of ''The History of the King's Son of Galicia, named Pontus, and the beautiful Sydonia'' ([[Pontus and Sidonia]]) from French *[[Hilde Spiel]] – translator of works by [[William Macneile Dixon]], [[Edna O'Brien]] and [[Tom Stoppard]] among others *[[Dorothea Tieck]] – translator of Shakespeare *[[Johann Heinrich Voss]] – translator of classical poetry === Into Greek === *[[Demetris Th. Gotsis]] – translator of poetry by [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], [[Johannes Bobrowski]], [[Stefan George]], [[Friedrich Hölderlin]], [[Sarah Kirsch (poet)|Sarah Kirsch]], [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] and [[Nelly Sachs]] among others *[[Nana Isaia]] – translator of works by [[Susan Sontag]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[Hermann Hesse]] and [[Thomas Mann]] *[[Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou]] – translator of works by [[Karl Marx]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Charles Gide]] and [[Sidney Hook]] among others *[[:ru:Триантафиллидис, Димитриос|Dimitrios Triantafyllidis]] – translator of Russian literature, founder of the literary almanac "Στέπα" ===Into Gujarati=== *[[Anila Dalal]] – translator of works by [[Hem Barua]], [[Buddhadeb Bosu]], [[Mahasweta Devi]], [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]], [[Bimal Kar]] and [[Rama Mehta]] *[[Bhogilal Gandhi]] – translator from English and Bengali *[[Kantilal L. Kalani]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[P. C. Kokila]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Jaya Mehta]] – translator of [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' *[[Tridip Suhrud]] – translator of [[G. N. Devy]] and biographies *[[J. V. S. Taylor]] – translator of the ''Bible'' *[[Uttamlal Trivedi]] – translator of ''[[Shrimadh Bhagvad Gita Rahasya|Gita Rahasya]]'' by [[Lokmanya Tilak]] *[[Kamal Vora]] – translator of world poetry === Into Hawaiian === * [[John Mahiʻai Kāneakua]] – translator of the ''Book of Mormon'' * [[R. Keao NeSmith]] – translator of children's literature including the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series by J. K. Rowling, ''[[The Little Prince]]'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] and ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' by [[Lewis Carroll]] among others === Into Hebrew === *[[Yehuda Alharizi]] – translator of Maimonides' [[Guide for the Perplexed]] and Arabic [[maqama]] poetry *[[Gili Bar-Hillel]] – translator of children's literature by [[Jacqueline Wilson]], [[Diana Wynne Jones]] and [[Noel Streatfeild]] among others *[[Cabret]] – translator from Latin at the end of 14th century *[[T. Carmi]] – translator of Shakespeare *[[Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi]] – translator of scientific works from Arabic into Hebrew (for further translation into Latin by [[Plato of Tivoli]]) *[[Ibn Tibbon]] family – translator of Greek, Roman, Arab, and Jewish works from Arabic *[[Pedro II of Brazil|Emperor D. Pedro II]] – translator of poetry by [[Luís de Camões]] from Portuguese *[[Abraham Regelson]] – translator of literature from English and Yiddish *[[Yitzhak Salkinsohn]] – 19th century translator of [[John Milton]] and Shakespeare *[[Rachel Shapira]] – translator of songs, such as [[Don McLean]]'s "Genesis", sung by [[Gali Atari]], [[Julie Gold]]'s "[[From a Distance]]", sung by [[Ruhama Raz]], and [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s "[[Fields of Gold]]", sung by Dorit Farkash *[[Abraham Shlonsky]] – translator of Shakespeare, [[Nikolai Gogol]], and others *[[Adin Steinsaltz]] – translator of dozens of volumes of [[Talmud]] from [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] *[[Shaul Tchernichovsky]] – prolific literary translator *[[Safrira Zachai]] – film dubbing director and translator === Into Hindi=== *[[Pratibha Agrawal]] – translator of ''[[An Enemy of the People]]'' by [[Henrik Ibsen]], ''Shesh Raksha'' by [[Rabindranath Tagore]], ''Ebang Indrajit'' by [[Badal Sircar]] and ''Tin ki Talwar'' by [[Utpal Dutt]] *[[H. Balasubramaniam|Harihara Balasubramaniam]] – translator of ''[[Tolkaappiyam]]'' and the poems of [[Subramania Bharati]] *[[Manjari Joshi]] – translator from Russian *[[Vishnu Khare]] – translator from European and Asian languages *[[Uday Prakash]] *[[Rahul Rajesh]] – translator of poems by [[Ankur Betageri]] *[[Bhisham Sahni]] – translator [[Leo Tolstoy|Lev Tolstoy]]’s short stories and his novel [[Resurrection (Tolstoy novel)|''Resurrection'']] *[[Raghuvir Sahay]] *[[Madhavrao Sapre]] – translator of works by [[Samarth Ramdas]], [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]] and [[Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya]] *[[Ashok Vajpeyi]] – translator of Polish poetry by [[Czesław Miłosz]] and [[Wisława Szymborska|Wislawa Szymborska]] among others *[[Ganga Prasad Vimal]] *[[Rajendra Yadav]] – translator of ''The Outsider'' by [[Albert Camus]] and ''A Hero of Our Times'' by [[Mikhail Lermontov]] among others === Into Hungarian === * [[Ágnes Gergely]] – translator of English and American literature === Into Icelandic === * [[Guðbrandur Þorláksson]] – translator of the ''Bible'' * [[Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir]] – translator of textbooks * [[Agnete Loth]] – translator of Old Norse-Icelandic texts * [[Geir T. Zoëga]] – translator of English and Old Icelandic dictionaries === Into [[Interlingua]] === * [[Alexander Gode]] – translator of scientific and medical literature === Into Italian === *[[Italo Calvino]] – translator of [[Raymond Queneau]]'s ''Les fleurs bleues'' (''The Blue Flowers'') *[[Ettore Capriolo]] – translator of [[McLuhan]], [[Albert Camus|Camus]], [[Salman Rushdie]] *[[Eduardo De Filippo]] – translator of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Tempest'' into 18th century [[Neapolitan language|Neapolitan]] *[[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 *[[Grazyna Miller]] – translator of [[Pope John Paul II]]'s ''[[Roman Triptych (Meditations)|Roman Triptych: Meditations]]'' from Polish *[[Cesare Pavese]] – translator of [[Herman Melville]], Charles Dickens and others *[[Hamza Roberto Piccardo]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' *[[Fernanda Pivano]] – translator of works by [[Gregory Corso]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Francis Scott Fitzgerald]], [[William Faulkner]], [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Edgar Lee Masters]] and [[Thornton Wilder]] among other English-language authors *[[Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca]] – translator of Tolkein *[[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 === *[[Shuzo Matsunaga]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Mori Ōgai|Ogai Mori]] – translator of Goethe and Andersen from German *[[Haruki Murakami]] – translator of [[Raymond Chandler]] *[[Maruya Saiichi]] – translator of [[James Joyce]] *[[Takanobu Takahashi]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Yukika Sohma]] – the first female qualified in [[Language interpretation|simultaneous translation]] in Japanese history === Into Juhuri === *[[Sergey Izgiyaev]] – translator of the libretto of [[Uzeyir Hajibeyov]]'s opera ''[[Leyli and Majnun (opera)|Layla and Majnun]]'', and poems by [[Mikhail Lermontov]], [[Suleyman Stalsky]], [[Gamzat Tsadasa]], [[Rasul Gamzatov]] and other poets ===Into Kannada=== *[[Sara Aboobacker]] – translator of novels *[[L. Gundappa]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[B. M. Srikanthaiah]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[S. Srinivasan (Kural translator)|S. Srinivasan]] – translator of the ''Kural'' ===Into Konkani=== *[[Suresh Gundu Amonkar]] – translator of the ''Kural'', [[Dhammapada]], [[Bhagavad Gita]], the [[Gospel of John]] and [[Dnyaneshwari]] *[[Narayana Purushothama Mallaya|N. Purushothama Maliaya]] – translator of the ''Kural'' === Into Latin === *[[Arcadius Avellanus]] – translator of popular fiction; proponent of [[Living Latin]] *[[Constanzo Beschi]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Herman of Carinthia]] – translator of Arabic scientific texts *[[Boniface Consiliarius]] – translator of numerous church documents from Greek *[[Karl Graul]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[St. Jerome]] – produced the Latin [[Vulgate]] version of the Bible; regarded by [[Christianity|Christians]] as the [[patron saint]] of translators *[[Robert of Ketton]] and [[Herman of Carinthia]] – rendered the ''[[Qur'an]]'' into Latin (1142–1143) *[[William of Moerbeke]] – medieval translator of [[Aristotle]] and ancient Greek science *[[John Sarrazin]] – medieval translator of the writings of [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite|Pseudo-Dionysius]] from Greek *[[Plato Tiburtinus]] – medieval translator of the astronomical works of [[al-Battani]], ''Liber Embadorum'' by [[Abraham bar Hiyya|Abraham bar Chiia]], ''[[Tetrabiblos]]'' by [[Claudius Ptolemy]] and [[Theodosius' Spherics|''Spherics'']] by [[Theodosius of Bithynia]] ===Into Latvian === * [[Ieva Lešinska]] – translator of works by [[John Cornwell (writer)|John Cornwell]], [[Modris Eksteins]], [[Therese Anne Fowler]], [[Toni Morrison]] and [[Timothy D. Snyder]] amongst others; also translates from Latvian to English * [[Mirdza Ķempe]] – translator of the play ''[[Mozart and Salieri (play)|Mozart and Salieri]]'' by [[Alexander Pushkin]] === Into Lithuanian === * [[Jonas Bretkūnas]] – translatior of the full [[Luther Bible]] (unpublished) * [[Teodoras Četrauskas]] – translator of works by [[Günter Grass]], [[Thomas Bernhard]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Elias Canetti]], [[Siegfried Lenz]], [[Alfred Döblin]] and [[Michael Ende]] * [[Neringa Dangvydė]] – translator of works by [[Hélène Cixous]], [[Gaël Faye]] and [[Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt]] * [[Juozapas Skvireckas]] – translator of the ''Bible'' ===Into Malayalam=== *[[Curien Kaniamparambil]] – translator of the [[Syriac Christianity|Syriac]] [[Peshitta]] ''Bible'' *[[Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[G. Balakrishnan Nair]] – translator of the ''Kural'' *[[Tiruvallam G. Bhaskaran Nair]] – translator of the ''Kural'' ===Into Manx=== * [[Jennifer Kewley Draskau]] – translator of Danish and English works * [[John Phillips (bishop of Sodor and Man)|John Phillips]] – translator of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' * [[Brian Stowell]] – translator of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice in Wonderland]]'' by [[Lewis Carroll|Lewis Carrol]] ===Into [[Marathi language|Marathi]]=== *[[Sane Guruji]] – translator of the ''Kural'' ===Into [[Meitei language|Meitei]]=== *[[Soibam Rebika Devi]] – translator of the ''Kural'' === Into Mongolian === * [[Chosgi Odsir]] – translator of Buddhist poetry * [[Byambyn Rinchen]] – translator of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]'s ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' * [[Isaac Jacob Schmidt]] – translator of the ''Bible'' === Into Mota === * [[Elizabeth Colenso]] ===Into Nepali=== *[[Bhanubhakta Acharya]] – translator of the epic ''[[Ramayana]]'' from Sanskrit *[[Laxmi Prasad Devkota]] – translator of [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Hamlet]]'' *[[Suman Pokhrel]] *[[Abhi Subedi]] – translator of poems === Into Norwegian === * [[Nils Ivar Agøy]] * [[Erik Gunnes]] – translator of the [[New Testament]] of the ''Bible'' * [[Jens Matthias Pram Kaurin]] – translator of the ''Bible'' === Into Odia === * [[Shakuntala Baliarsingh]] – translator of the Tamil work ''Kaberi Bhali Jhiatie'' by Tripurasundari Laxmi * [[Chittaranjan Das (writer)|Chittaranjan Das]] – translator of the ''Kural'' and works by [[Sri Aurobindo]] * [[Gananath Das]] – translator of the ''Kural'', works of [[Kabir Das]] and [[Guru Nanak]] === Into Oromo === * [[Mohammed Rashad Abdulle]] – translator of the ''Qu'ran'' * [[Aster Ganno]] – translator of the ''Bible'' * [[Onesimos Nesib]] – translator of the ''Bible'' === Into Persian === *[[Jalal Al-e-Ahmad]] – translator of works by [[Albert Camus]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] and others *[[Lili Golestan]] – translator of works by Andrew Andry, [[Oriana Fallaci]] and [[Christopher Frank]] among others *[[Kourosh Safavi]] – translator of works by [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Jostein Gaarder]] and [[Roman Jakobson]] among others === Into Polish === *[[Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński]] – prolific translator of French [[classic literature]]; murdered by the [[Nazis]] *[[Stanisław Czerski]] – translator of the fables of [[Phaedrus (fabulist)|Phaedrus]] *[[Ignacy Krasicki]] – translator of [[Plutarch]] and [[Ossian]] *[[Bolesław Leśmian]] – poet who translated the tales of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] *[[Maria Skibniewska]] – translator of world literature, including the works of [[Chinua Achebe]], [[Margaret Craven (writer)|Margaret Craven]], [[William Faulkner]], [[Graham Greene]], [[Halldór Laxness]], [[Françoise Mallet-Joris]], [[Maria Rosseels]], [[Flannery O'Connor]], [[J. D. Salinger]], [[Alan Sillitoe]], [[H. G. Wells|Herbert George Wells]] and [[Patrick White]] amongst others *[[Maciej Słomczyński]] – translator of [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' and of the complete works of Shakespeare *[[Robert Stiller]] – prolific translator of [[classic literature|classic]] and [[contemporary literature]], from a score of languages, [[European languages|European]] as well as [[Oriental languages|Oriental]] *[[Władysław Syrokomla]] – translator of Latin, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian poets, including works by [[Pierre-Jean de Béranger]], [[Goethe]], [[Heinrich Heine]], [[Lermontov|Mikhail Lermontov]], [[Nikolay Nekrasov]] and [[Taras Shevchenko]] *[[Julian Tuwim]] – translator of [[Alexander Pushkin]] and other Russian poets *[[Adam Ważyk]] – translator of Alexander Pushkin's ''[[Eugene Onegin]]'' *[[Aniela Zagórska]] – translator of the works of [[Joseph Conrad]] === Into Portuguese === *[[Machado de Assis]] translator of works by Charles Dickens, [[Émile de Girardin]], Victor Hugo and Edgar Allan Poe *[[Carlos do Amaral Freire]] – translator of world poetry *[[Daniel Galera]] *[[Monteiro Lobato]] – translator of ''[[Tarzan the Terrible]]'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[Sorrell and Son (novel)|Sorrell and Son]]'' by [[Warwick Deeping]], ''[[Toilers of the Sea|Les Travailleurs de la Mer]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]], ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' and ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''[[Pollyanna]]'' by [[Eleanor H. Porter]] and ''[[Dear Enemy (novel)|Dear Enemy]]'' and ''[[Just Patty]]'' by [[Jean Webster]] among others *[[Clarice Lispector]] – translator of works by [[Agatha Christie]], Oscar Wilde, and Edgar Allan Poe. *[[Décio Pignatari]] – translator of works by Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and McLuhan *[[Lia Wyler]] – translator of works by [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Stephen King]], [[Henry Miller]], [[Joyce Carol Oates]], [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Gore Vidal]] and [[Tom Wolfe]] among others === Into Punjabi === * [[Tarlochan Singh Bedi]] – translator of the ''Kural'' * [[Narinder Singh Kapoor]] – translator of [[Ivan Turgenev|Ivan Turgnev']]<nowiki/>s ''[[Fathers and Sons (novel)|Fathers and Sons]]'' and [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]'s ''[[The Discovery of India]]'' * [[Surjit Patar]] – translator of the three tragedies of<nowiki/> [[Federico García Lorca]], the play ''Nagmandala'' by [[Girish Karnad]], and poems by [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Pablo Neruda]] among other works === Into Romanian === * [[Laura Poantă]] – translator of works by [[Edmondo De Amicis]], [[David Greig (dramatist)|David Greig]], [[Katherine Mansfield]], [[Saki]], and [[Mark Twain]] amongst others === Into Russian === *[[Lidiia Alekseeva]] (1909–1989) – translator the works of Croatian writer [[Ivan Gundulić]] *[[Ivan Bunin]] – translator of ''[[The Song of Hiawatha]]'' by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] *[[Alexander Druzhinin]] – translator of several of Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of [[George Crabbe]] *[[Janina Dziarnowska]] – translator of Polish literature *[[Nora Gal]] – translator of the works of [[science fiction]] authors, including [[Isaac Asimov]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]], [[Roger Zelazny]] and [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] *[[Yurij Yakovlevitch Glazov|J. J. Glazov]] – translator of the ''Kural'' and the ''[[Cilappatikaram]]'' *[[Nikolay Gnedich]] – made the classical translation of ''[[The Iliad]]'' *[[Tatiana Gnedich]] – translated Lord Byron's ''[[Don Juan (poem)|Don Juan]]'' (from memory) *[[Viktor Golyshev]] – translator of ''[[Light in August]]'', ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'', ''[[All the King's Men]]'', ''[[Theophilus North]]'', ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'', ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms (novel)|Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'', ''[[Set This House on Fire]]'', ''[[Pulp (novel)|Pulp]]'' and other books; he mostly worked on American literature *[[Mikhail Lozinsky]] – made the classical translation of ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' by [[Dante Alighieri]] *[[Samuil Marshak]] – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works *[[Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov|Aleksey Mikhalyov]] – translator ''[[East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]]<nowiki/>and many other authors, as well as films and cartoons *[[Midori Miura]] – translator of ''Non-chan kumo ni noru'' by [[Momoko Ishii]] *[[Vladimir Muravyov (translator)|Vladimir Muravyov]] – translator of ''[[The Great Pursuit]]'' by [[Tom Sharpe]] *[[Vladimir Nabokov]] – translator of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' and ''[[Lolita]]'' *[[Boris Pasternak]] – translator of ''[[Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'' and Shakespeare's ''[[Hamlet]]'' *[[Rita Rait-Kovaleva]] – translator of ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' by J. D. Salinger and other works, including those by [[William Faulkner]], [[Franz Kafka]] and [[Heinrich Böll]] ===Into Sanskrit=== *[[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] – translator of the ''Bible'' from the original Greek and Hebrew *[[S. N. Sriramadesikan|Sirungathur Nadathur Sriramadesikan]] – translator of the ''Kural'' ===Into Saurashtra=== *[[Sankhu Ram|S. S. Ram]] – translator of the ''Kural'' === Into Spanish === *[[Pilar Adón]] – translator from English *[[Eduardo Balderas]] – books by leaders of the [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) including ''[[A Marvelous Work and a Wonder]]'' by [[LeGrand Richards]], ''[[The Miracle of Forgiveness]]'' by [[Spencer W. Kimball]] and ''[[Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (book)|Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith]]'' by [[Joseph Fielding Smith]] among others *[[Blanche Zacharie de Baralt]] – translator of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] *[[Jorge Luis Borges]] – translator of English, French and German works *[[Clara Janés]] – translator from Eastern European languages *[[Gemma Rovira Ortega]] – translator of ''[[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas]]'' by [[John Boyne]] and ''[[The Kingkiller Chronicle]]'' series by [[Patrick Rothfuss]] *[[Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo]] – translator from French *[[Xenia Dyakonova]] – translator from Russian *[[Javier Marías]] – translator of many English works *[[Casiodoro de Reina]] – translator of the ''Bible'' *[[Isabel Sabogal]] – translator from Polish *[[Carlos Sherman]] – translator of Belarusian writers [[Jakub Kolas]], [[Janka Kupala]], [[Ryhor Baradulin]] and [[Vasil Bykau]] *[[Babaji Singh]] – translator [[Guru Granth Sahib|''Guru Granth Sahib'']], the holy text of the [[Sikhs|Sikh]] religion *[[Félix Torres Amat]] – translator of the ''Bible'' *[[Abraham Usque]] – translator of the [[Hebrew Bible]] === Into Swahili === *[[Julius Nyerere]] – translator of Shakespeare ===Into Swedish=== *[[Carl August Hagberg]] – translator of Shakespeare *[[Tove Jansson]] – translator of J. R. R. Tolkien *[[Åke Ohlmarks]] – translator of the Icelandic [[Edda]] and works by [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Nostradamus]] and J. R. R. Tolkien *[[Sara Stridsberg]] – translator of the ''[[SCUM Manifesto]]'' by [[Valerie Solanas]] ===Into Tamil=== *[[Johann Phillip Fabricius]] – translator of the ''Bible'' *[[Bhuvana Natarajan]] – translator from Bengali *[[Virai Kaviraja Pandithar]] – translator of the Sanskrit literary work [[Saundarya Lahari|''Saundarya Lahari'']] *[[Puviarasu]] – translator of ''The Book of Mirdad'' by [[Mikha'il Na'ima]], The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Shakespeare plays ''[[Hamlet]],'' ''[[Othello]]'' and ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' ===Into Thai === * [[Ann Hasseltine Judson]] – translator of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] * [[Ngarmpun Vejjajiva]] – translator of ''Seta'' by [[Alessandro Baricco]], ''Le moine et le philosophe'' by [[Jean-François Revel]] and [[Mathieu Ricard]] and ''[[The Trumpet of the Swan]]'' by [[E.B. White]] among others ===Into Turkish=== * [[Thomas Cosmades]] – translator of the New Testament of the ''Bible'' * [[Nurduran Duman]] – translator of the poems of [[Anne Sexton]], [[Sara Teasdale]], [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], and [[Sylvia Plath]], and [[Alma Alexander]]'s book ''[[The Secrets of Jin-Shei|The Secrets of Jin-shei]]'' * [[Sabahattin Eyüboğlu]] – translator of works by [[Michel de Montaigne]], [[Jean de La Fontaine]], [[Ivan Goncharov]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Plato]], [[Albert Camus]], [[François Rabelais]], [[Paul Valéry]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Aristophanes]], [[Omar Khayyám]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Molière]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Bertrand Russell]] and [[François-Noël Babeuf]] * [[Sevin Okyay]] – translator of works by [[James Baldwin]], [[Agatha Christie]], [[Ted Hughes]], [[H. P. Lovecraft]], [[Edouard Roditi]] and J. K. Rowling, among others === Into Ukrainian === * [[Perepadia Anatol]] – translator of ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' by [[François Rabelais]] and ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' by [[Marcel Proust]] * [[Kateryna Mikhalitsyna]] – translator of works by [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Alfred Szklarski]], J. R. R. Tolkien and Oscar Wilde * [[Oleksandr Mokrovolskyi]] – translator of world literature and scholarly works by [[Richard Adams]], [[John Ciardi]], [[Eoin Colfer]], [[Wilkie Collins]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Jean Bethke Elshtain]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[Alfonso Grosso]], [[Seamus Heaney]], [[Justinas Marcinkevičius]], [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], [[Christina Rossetti]], [[Joan Samson]], [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], [[Tristan Tzara]] and [[Slavoj Žižek]] among others * [[Oleksa Nehrebets'kyi]] – translator of feature films and TV series * [[Iryna Shuvalova]] – translator of ''[[Life of Pi]]'' by [[Yann Martel]] and ''[[Milk and Honey (poetry collection)|Milk and Honey]]'' by [[Rupi Kaur]] === Into Urdu === * [[Mahmud Husain]] – translator of the ''[[Social Contract (Rousseau)|Social Contract]]'' by [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] and political treatise ''[[The Prince]]'' by [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] * [[Ali Haider Tabatabai]] – translator of ''[[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]'' by [[Thomas Gray]] === Into Vietnamese === * [[Ngô Tự Lập]] – translator of works by [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Blaise Cendrars]] and others * [[Phạm Xuân Nguyên]] – translator of works by [[Georges Bataille]], [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], [[Jean-François Lyotard]], [[Haruki Murakami]], [[Steve Parker (writer)|Steve Parker]] and [[Oscar Zárate]] among others === Into Xhosa === * [[Henry Hare Dugmore]] – translator of the ''Bible'' === Into Zulu === * [[John Colenso]] – translator of the ''Bible'' ==See also== *[[Translation]] *[[Self-translation]] *[[List of translators into English]] *[[List of women translators]] {{Appropriation in the arts|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Translators}} [[Category:Lists of people by occupation]] [[Category:Translators| ]] [[Category:Translation-related lists]]
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