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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.

Contents

1 Translators into English 1.1 Literature 1.1.1 Translators of Homer (i.e. the Iliad and Odyssey) 1.1.2 Translators of Herodotus' The Histories 1.1.3 Translators of Virgil's Aeneid 1.1.4 Translators of Ovid's The Metamorphoses 1.1.5 Translators of other famous Classical authors 1.1.6 Translators of The Bible 1.1.7 Translators of The Qu'ran 1.1.8 Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics 1.1.9 Translators of Anglo-Saxon 1.1.10 Translators of The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights 1.1.11 Translators of Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji 1.1.12 Translators of Dante's Divine Comedy 1.1.13 Translators of Montaigne's Essays 1.1.14 Translators of Rabelais 1.1.15 Translators of Cervantes' Don Quixote 1.1.16 Translators of Goethe 1.1.17 Translators of Dostoyevsky 1.1.18 Translators of Tolstoy 1.1.19 Translators of Mann 1.1.20 Translators of Kafka 1.1.21 Translators of Musil 1.1.22 Translators of Proust 1.1.23 Translators of Borges 1.1.24 Other notable translators of French 1.1.25 Other notable translators of German 1.1.26 Other notable translators of Italian 1.1.27 Other notable translators of Spanish 1.1.28 Other notable translators of Russian 1.1.29 Other notable translators of Japanese 1.1.30 Translators of Chinese 1.1.31 Multi-lingual translators 1.1.32 Self-translators 1.2 Philosophy 1.2.1 Translators of Ancient Chinese classics 1.2.2 Translators of Ancient Indian classics 1.2.3 Translators of Hellenistic and Roman philosophers 1.2.4 Translators of Aquinas 1.2.5 Translators of Descartes 1.2.6 Translators of Spinoza 1.2.7 Translators of Leibniz 1.2.8 Translators of Vico 1.2.9 Translators of Kant 1.2.10 Translators of Hegel 1.2.11 Translators of Schopenhauer 1.2.12 Translators of Kierkegaard 1.2.13 Translators of Nietzsche 1.2.14 Translators of Heidegger's Being and Time 1.2.15 Translators of Derrida 1.2.16 Other translators 1.3 Other 2 Translators into languages other than English 2.1 French translators 2.2 German translators 2.3 Hispanic translators 2.4 Japanese translators 2.5 Russian translators 2.6 Latin translators 3 See Also

Translators into English

Literature

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Alamgir Hashmi
• David Homel - noted translator of Québécois literature into English
• Charles Muller
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Taufiq Rafat - translated classical Punjabi poetry into English
• Cecil Parrott - translator of The Good Soldier Svejk.
• Celina Wieniewska - translator of Polish, esp. Bruno Schulz
• Jerzy Ficowski - translator of Polish, esp. Bruno Schulz
• David H. Rosenthal - translator of Tirant Lo Blanc from Catalan
• Norma Comrada - translator of Czech, esp. Karel Capek
• Christina Pribicevic-Zoric - translator of Serbo-Croatian, esp. Milorad Pavic
• Victor G. Kiernan
• Edward FitzGerald - famous for his version of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, from the Persian
• Reynold A. Nicholson

Translators of Homer (i.e. the Iliad and Odyssey)

• Samuel Butler
• Alexander Pope
• George Chapman
• E. V. Rieu
• T. E. Lawrence
• Robert Fitzgerald
• Richmond Lattimore
• Robert Fagles

Translators of Herodotus' The Histories

• Aubrey De Sélincourt
• Robin Waterfield
• Walter Blanco & Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
• George Rawlinson
• David Grene

Translators of Virgil's Aeneid

• John Dryden
• Allen Mandelbaum
• Robert Fitzgerald
• Clyde Pharr
• C. Day Lewis
• Rolfe Humphries

Translators of Ovid's The Metamorphoses

• Arthur Golding
• Charles Martin
• Allen Mandelbaum
• Rolfe Humphries
• David R. Slavitt
• John Dryden

Translators of other famous Classical authors

• Philemon Holland
• Arthur Hugh Clough - revision of John Dryden's Plutarch's Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
• Stephen MacKenna - translator of Plotinus
• Betty Radice
• Ian Scott-Kilvert
• Thomas North - Elizabethan translator of Plutarch
• E. F. Watling
• Philip Vellacott
• Rex Warner - translator of Thucydides

Translators of The Bible

• John Wycliffe
• Martin Luther
• Translators of The King James Bible

Translators of The Qu'ran

• Arthur John Arberry
• N. J. Dawood
• Abdullah Yusuf Ali
• Ahmed Ali
• Marmaduke Pickthall

Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics

• Gwyn Jones - also Welsh
• Hermann Palsson
• Magnus Magnusson
• Paul Edwards
• Jesse L. Byock
• Lee M. Hollander
• Anthony Faulkes
• George Johnston

Translators of Anglo-Saxon

• Brian Stone
• Seamus Heaney

Translators of The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights

• John Payne
• Jonathan Scott
• Andrew Lang
• Richard Francis Burton - also translated from other Oriental languages, including Sanskrit
• Edward William Lane & Stanley Lane-Poole
• Edward Powys Mathers
• Husain Haddawy

Translators of Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji

• Arthur Waley - Also a well known translator of Chinese.
• Edward Seidensticker - Also numerous other famous works of Japanese literature.
• Royall Tyler

Translators of Dante's Divine Comedy

• Allen Mandelbaum - Also a translator of Latin
• Robert M. Durling
• Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander
• John Ciardi
• W.S. Merwin
• Mark Musa
• Charles Singleton
• Anthony M. Esolen
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• C. H. Sisson
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Translators of Montaigne's Essays

• John Florio
• Donald Frame
• M. A. Screech

Translators of Rabelais

• Thomas Urquhart & Pierre Antoine Motteux
• Jacques LeClercq
• W. F. Smith
• Burton Raffel
• J. M. Cohen
• Samuel Putnam
• Donald Frame
• M. A. Screech

Translators of Cervantes' Don Quixote

• 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

• Walter W. Arndt - Also a translator of Russian
• Eric A. Blackall & Victor Lange
• W.H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer
• Michael Hulse
• Louise Bogan

Translators of Dostoyevsky

• 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 Mann

• H. T. Lowe-Porter
• John Wood

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

• Gilbert Adair
• Robert Baldick
• David Bellos
• Robin Buss
• Mary Ann Caws
• Sheila Fischman - translator of Quebec literature
• Grace Frick - translator of Marguerite Yourcenar
• Stuart Gilbert
• Richard Howard
• A. J. Krailsheimer
• Justin O'Brien - translator of Albert Camus
• Douglas Parmee
• Francis Steegmuller
• Leonard Tancock
• Geoffrey Wall - specialist in Gustave Flaubert
• Barbara Wright

Other notable translators of German

• Jean Starr Untermeyer - translated Broch
• C. V. Wedgwood - translated Canetti
• Michael Hamburger - translated Hoelderlin, Celan
• Hilda Rosner - translated Hesse
• Edward Snow - translated Rilke
• Stephen Mitchell - translated Rilke and others
• Leila Vennewitz - translated Boell, Becker and others

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

• Max Hayward
• Michael Glenny
• Mirra Ginsburg
• Alan Myers
• Ronald Hingley
• John Glad
• Ronald Wilks
• Vladimir Nabokov

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

• Arthur Waley
• David Hawkes - translator of the Chinese classic Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin

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)

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Samuel Beckett
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Vladimir Nabokov

Philosophy

Translators of Ancient Chinese classics

• James Legge
• David Hinton
• Richard Wilhelm
• Thomas Cleary
• Robert G. Henricks

Translators of Ancient Indian classics

• Annie Besant
• Juan Mascaro
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Max Mueller

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

Translators of Descartes

• 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

• J. M. Meiklejohn
• Max Mueller
• Norman Kemp Smith
• Werner S. Pluhar
• Gary Hatfield
• Allen Wood & Paul Guyer

Translators of Hegel

• J. Sibree
• T. M. Knox
• Arnold V. Miller
• Hugh Barr Nisbet

Translators of Schopenhauer

• T. Bailey Saunders
• E. F. J. Payne

Translators of Kierkegaard

• Alastair Hannay
• Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong

Translators of Nietzsche

• Walter Kaufmann
• R. J. Hollingdale

Translators of Heidegger's Being and Time

• John Macquarie & Edward Robinson
• Joan Stambaugh

Translators of Derrida

• Alan Bass
• Geoffrey Bennington
• Elizabeth Rottenberg
• Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak
• Thomas Dutoit
• Peggy Kamuf

Other translators

• J. N. Findlay - Husserl
• Colin Smith - Merleau-Ponty
• Elizabeth Anscombe - Wittgenstein
• Michael Dummet - Frege
• Hazel E. Barnes - Sartre
• Andrew Bowie - Schelling, Schleiermacher

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

• Jean Hyppolite - translated Hegel and popularized his work
• Antoine Galland - translated first European edition of the Arabian Nights
• J. C. Mardrus - also a translator of the Arabian Nights
• Étienne Aignan

German translators

• Johann Heinrich Voss - translated classical poetry into German

Hispanic translators

• Jorge Luis Borges - translated many English, French, and German works into Spanish

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

• Boris Pasternak - made famous translation of Hamlet

Latin translators

• St. Jerome - responsible for the Latin Vulgate; called 'patron saint' of translators
• Robert of Ketton & Herman of Carinthia - Qu'ran into Latin (1142-1143)
• Herman of Carinthia- translated Arabic scientific texts in Latin

See Also

• Literature
• Philosophy
• Translation

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