List of translators

This is primarily a list of notable translators. Large sublists have been split off to separate articles.

By text

By target language

Into Arabic

Ahmed Shawqi
Hafez Ibrahim
Ibn al-Muqaffa'
Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
Taha Hussein – Sophocles, Racine, others

Into Albanian

Into Armenian

Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)

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

Into Bulgarian

Into Chinese

Into English

List of translators into English

Into French

Étienne Aignan
Jacques Amyot produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North
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.
Marie De Cotteblanche (c1520 - c1584), a French noble woman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French.
Chateaubriand translated Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose
Anne Dacier – translated classical Greek works
Antoine Galland - translated the first European edition of the Arabian Nights
Jean Hyppolite - translated Hegel and popularized his work
Leconte de Lisle – translated classical Greek authors
Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune - translated medical and philological works into French
Stéphane Mallarmé - translated the poetry of E.A. Poe
J. C. Mardrus - a translator of the Arabian Nights
Boris Vian - translated 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)

Into German

Markus Hediger – translated novels of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz and poems of Nicolas Bouvier
Henny Koch - produced the first translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890
Franz Kuhn - translator of many Chinese works including Dream of the Red Chamber into German
Schlegel and Tieck produced the most famous German translation of Shakespeare
Johann Heinrich Voss - translated classical poetry into German

Into Greek

Yannis Livadas - the most productive translator concerning modern and postmodern English and American poetry in Greek

Into Hebrew

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

Into Hindi

Nirmal Verma - translated Karel Capek, Jiri Fried, Joseph Skoversky, Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabal^[1]

Into Interlingua

Alexander Gode - translated scientific and medical literature into Interlingua

Into Italian

Italo Calvino - translated Raymond Queneau's Les fleurs bleues (The Blue Flowers)
Ettore Capriolo - translated McLuhan, Camus, Rushdie
Eduardo De Filippo - translated Shakespeare's The Tempest into 18th century Neapolitan
Vincenzo Mantovani - translated 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 - translated Pope John Paul II's Roman Triptych: Meditations from Polish into Italian
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

Into Japanese

Ogai Mori - translator of Goethe and Andersen (from the German)
Haruki Murakami - translator of Raymond Chandler
Maruya Saiichi - translator of Joyce

Into Juhuri

Sergey Izgiyaev - translated the libretto of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's opera Layla and Majnun, and poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Suleyman Stalsky, Gamzat Tsadasa, Rasul Gamzatov and other poets

Into Latin

Boniface Consiliarius translated numerous church documents from Greek into Latin.
Herman of Carinthia translated Arabic scientific texts into Latin.
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 Persian

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad – translated works by Camus, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, 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 – translated 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 – superb 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

Machado de Assis
Monteiro Lobato
Carlos do Amaral Freire
Daniel Galera
Décio Pignatari - translator of Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and McLuhan
Abraham Usque

Into Russian

Aleksey Mikhalyov - translated John Steinbeck's East of Eden and many other authors, as well as numerous films and cartoons
Ivan Bunin - translated The Song of Hiawatha
Alexander Druzhinin - translated several of Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of George Crabbe
Nikolay Gnedich - made the classical translation of The Iliad
Mikhail Lozinsky - made the classical translation of The Divine Comedy
Samuil Marshak - translated Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works
Midori Miura - translated Non-chan kumo ni noru by Momoko Ishii
Vladimir Nabokov - translated Alice in Wonderland and Lolita
Boris Pasternak - translated Faust and Hamlet
Viktor Golyshev - translated 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 - translated The Catcher in the Rye and other works, including those by William Faulkner, Franz Kafka and Heinrich Böll.

Into Spanish

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

Into Swahili

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

Into Swedish

Carl August Hagberg – translator or Shakespeare.

Into Luganda

Iddi Ndyabawe - translator of Attar

Self-translators

(Authors who translated their own work into other languages)

References

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