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