List of translators

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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 Arabic[]

Into Albanian[]

Into Armenian[]

  • Levon Ananyan
  • Vahagn Davtyan
  • Hovhannes Masehian
  • Vahan Malezian
  • Yervant Odian
  • Nahapet Rusinian
  • Hamo Sahyan
  • Vardges Sureniants
  • Leon Surmelian
  • Alexander Tsaturian
  • Rita Vorperian

Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)[]

  • Hamlet Isaxanli (Isayev) – translator of poems from Russian, English and French

Into Bulgarian[]

  • Albena Bakratcheva
  • Valeri Petrov
  • Nikolai B. Popov

Into Chinese[]

Into Czech[]

  • Kamil V. Zvelebil – translator of the Tirukkural and other ancient Tamil works

Into English[]

Into Fijian[]

  • Mary Ann Lyth (1811–1890) – English missionary, translator, teacher

Into Finnish[]

  • Pentti Aalto – translator of the Tirukkural

Into French[]

  • Étienne Aignan
  • Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North
  • E. S. Ariel – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Georges Jean-Aubry
  • Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry.
  • Joséphine Colomb - translator from Italian
  • Marie De Cotteblanche (c1520 - c1584) – French noble woman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French.
  • Chateaubriand – translator of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose
  • Anne Dacier – translator of classical Greek works
  • Alain Daniélou – translator of the Tirukkural, Silappathikaram, Manimekalai and other works
  • Gnanou Diagou – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – translator of travel and geography works, and Fantasmagoriana
  • Antoine Galland – translator of the first European edition of the Arabian Nights
  • Jean Hyppolite – translator of Hegel and popularized his work
  • Louis Jacolliot – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Marie Léra (1864-1958) – translator of Brewster's Millions
  • Leconte de Lisle – translator of classical Greek authors
  • Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse – translator of the Tirukkural, Kamasutra and other Indian works
  • Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune – translator of medical and philological works into French
  • Stéphane Mallarmé – translator of the poetry of E. A. Poe
  • J. C. Mardrus – translator of the Arabian Nights
  • Lucie Paul-Margueritte – translator of Dracula
  • 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)
  • François Gros - translator of the Paripatal (part of the Eight Anthologies)

Into Galician[]

Into German[]

  • Zoë Beck – translator of several books by Pippa Goldschmidt and others, as well as popular television series
  • August Friedrich Caemmerer – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Karl Graul – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Markus Hediger – translator of novels of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz and poems of Nicolas Bouvier
  • Henny Koch – first translator of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890
  • Friedrich Rückert – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Schlegel and Tieck – produced the most famous German translation of Shakespeare
  • Johann Heinrich Voss – translator of classical poetry into German

Into Greek[]

Into Chichewa/Chinyanja[]

  • Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga – translator of Things Fall Apart

Into Gujarati[]

  • Kantilal L. Kalani – translator of the Tirukkural
  • P. C. Kokila – translator of the Tirukkural

Into Hebrew[]

  • Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi – translator of scientific works from Arabic into Hebrew (for further translation into Latin by Plato of Tivoli)
  • Yehuda Alharizi – translator of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed and Arabic maqama poetry
  • Cabret – translator from Latin – end of 14th century
  • T. Carmi – translator of Shakespeare
  • Ibn Tibbon family – translator of Greek, Roman, Arab, and Jewish works from Arabic
  • Emperor D. Pedro II – translator of poetry by Luís de Camões from Portuguese
  • Abraham Regelson – translator of literature from English and Yiddish
  • Yitzhak Salkinsohn – relatively early (19th century) translator of Milton and Shakespeare
  • Abraham Shlonsky – translator of Shakespeare, Gogol, and others
  • Adin Steinsaltz – translator of dozens of volumes of Talmud from Aramaic
  • Shaul Tchernichovsky – prolific literary translator

Into Hindi[]

  • Agneya
  • Harivansh Rai 'Bachchan'
  • Dharmveer Bharti
  • Nand Chaturvedi
  • Chandrakant Devtale
  • Teji Grover
  • B. D. Jain – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Govindaraj Shastri Jain – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Rajesh Joshi
  • Anil Janvijay
  • Vishnu Khare
  • Jitendra Kumar
  • Mukund Lath
  • Sankar Raju Naidu – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Rajan Pillai – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Suman Pokhrel
  • Uday Prakash
  • Hemant Shesh
  • Khan Chand Rahit – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Khenand Rakat – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Padma Sachdev
  • Ananda Sandhidut – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Vinod Sharma
  • K. Seshadri – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Kedarnath Singh
  • Raghuvir Sahay
  • Ramesh Chandra Shah
  • Ashok Vajpeyi
  • Shrikant Verma
  • Krishna Baldev Vaid
  • Ganga Prasad Vimal
  • M. G. Venkatakrishnan – translator of the Tirukkural

Into Interlingua[]

  • Alexander Gode – translator of scientific and medical literature into Interlingua

Into Italian[]

  • Italo Calvino – translator of Raymond Queneau's Les fleurs bleues (The Blue Flowers)
  • Ettore Capriolo – translator of McLuhan, Camus, Salman Rushdie
  • Eduardo De Filippo – translator of Shakespeare's The Tempest into 18th century 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 from Polish into Italian
  • Cesare Pavese – translator of Melville, Dickens and others
  • 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
  • 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[]

  • Ogai Mori – translator of Goethe and Andersen (from the German)
  • Shuzo Matsunaga – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Haruki Murakami – translator of Raymond Chandler
  • Maruya Saiichi – translator of Joyce
  • Takanobu Takahashi – translator of the Tirukkural

Into Juhuri[]

  • Sergey Izgiyaev – translator of the libretto of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's opera Layla and Majnun, and poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Suleyman Stalsky, , Rasul Gamzatov and other poets

Into Kannada[]

  • L. Gundappa – translator of the Tirukkural
  • B. M. Srikanthaiah – translator of the Tirukkural
  • S. Srinivasan – translator of the Tirukkural

Into Konkani[]

Into Latin[]

  • Constanzo Beschi – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Boniface Consiliarius – translator of numerous church documents from Greek into Latin
  • Herman of Carinthia – translator of Arabic scientific texts into Latin
  • Karl Graul – translator of the Tirukkural
  • St. Jerome – produced the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible; is regarded among 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

Into Malayalam[]

  • Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup – translator of the Tirukkural
  • G. Balakrishnan Nair – translator of the Tirukkural
  • Tiruvallam G. Bhaskaran Nair – translator of the Tirukkural

Into Marathi[]

  • Sane Guruji – translator of the Tirukkural

Into Meitei[]

Into Nepali[]

  • Abhi Subedi
  • Bhanubhakta Acharya
  • Laxmi Prasad Devkota
  • Suman Pokhrel

Into Persian[]

  • Jalal Al-e-Ahmad – translator of works by Camus, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, etc.
  • Lili Golestan – translator of works by , Oriana Fallaci, Christopher Frank, etc.

Into Polish[]

  • Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński – prolific translator of French classic literature; murdered by the Nazis.
  • Stanisław Czerski – translator of the fables of Phaedrus
  • Ignacy Krasicki – translator of Plutarch and Ossian.
  • Bolesław Leśmian – poet who translated the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Maciej Słomczyński – translator of James Joyce's Ulysses and of the complete works of Shakespeare.
  • Robert Stiller – prolific translator of classic and contemporary literature, from a score of languages, European as well as Oriental.
  • Władysław Syrokomla – translator of Latin, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian poets, including works by Béranger, Goethe, Heine, Lermontov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko.
  • Julian Tuwim – translator of Alexander Pushkin and other Russian poets.
  • Adam Ważyk – translator of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

Into Portuguese[]

Into Punjabi[]

Into Russian[]

  • Aleksey Mikhalyov – translator of John Steinbeck's East of Eden and many other authors, as well as numerous films and cartoons
  • Ivan Bunin – translator of The Song of Hiawatha
  • Alexander Druzhinin – translator of several of Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of George Crabbe
  • Nikolay Gnedich – made the classical translation of The Iliad
  • J. J. Glazov – translator of the Tirukkural and the Cilappatikaram
  • Mikhail Lozinsky – made the classical translation of The Divine Comedy
  • Samuil Marshak – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works
  • Midori Miura – translator of Non-chan kumo ni noru by Momoko Ishii
  • Vladimir Nabokov – translator of Alice in Wonderland and Lolita
  • Boris Pasternak – translator of Faust and Hamlet
  • 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
  • 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[]

  • Jorge Luis Borges – translator of many English, French, and German works into Spanish
  • Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838-1919) – translator from French into Spanish
  • Javier Marías – translator of many English works into Spanish

Into Swahili[]

  • Julius Nyerere – first president of Tanzania, translated Shakespeare into Swahili

Into Swedish[]

  • Carl August Hagberg – translator of Shakespeare

Into Tamil[]

See also[]

References[]

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