List of translators
This is primarily a list of notable translators. Large sublists have been split off to separate articles.
By text[edit]
- List of Bible translators
- List of Qur'an translators
- List of Kural translators
- Harry Potter in translation
By target language[edit]
Into Albanian[edit]
Into Arabic[edit]
- Ibn al-Muqaffa'
- Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
- Taha Hussein – translator of Sophocles, Racine, and others
- Hafs ibn Albar
- Hafez Ibrahim
- Ahmed Shawqi
Into Armenian[edit]
- Levon Ananyan
- Vahagn Davtyan
- Vahan Malezian
- Hovhannes Masehian
- Yervant Odian
- Nahapet Rusinian
- Hamo Sahyan
- Vardges Sureniants
- Leon Surmelian
- Alexander Tsaturian
- Rita Vorperian
Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)[edit]
- Hamlet Isaxanli (Isayev) – translator of poems from Russian, English and French
Into Bulgarian[edit]
Into Chichewa/Chinyanja[edit]
- Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga – translator of Things Fall Apart
Into Chinese[edit]
- Chen Liangting
- Huang Ai – translator of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Mei Yi – translator of How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky
- Wang Chong
- Wang Weike
- Yu Hsi – translator of the Kural
Into Czech[edit]
- Kamil V. Zvelebil – translator of the Kural and other ancient Tamil works
Into English[edit]
Into Fijian[edit]
- Mary Ann Lyth (1811–1890) – English missionary, translator, teacher
Into Finnish[edit]
- Pentti Aalto – translator of the Kural
Into French[edit]
- 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 Kural
- Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry
- Rose Celli – translated English works into French including Not So Quiet by Evadne Price
- Chateaubriand – translator of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose
- Joséphine Colomb – translator from Italian
- Marie De Cotteblanche (c. 1520 – c. 1584) – French noble woman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French
- Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac – translator of works by Alexander Pope and James Macpherson
- Anne Dacier – translator of classical Greek works
- Alain Daniélou – translator of the Kural, Silappathikaram, Manimekalai and other works
- Augustine De Rothmaler – translator of Johannes V. Jensen's Histoires du Himmerland
- Gnanou Diagou – translator of the Kural
- Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – translator of travel and geography works, and Fantasmagoriana
- Antoine Galland – translator of the first European edition of the Arabian Nights
- François Gros – translator of the Paripatal (part of the Eight Anthologies)
- Jean Hyppolite – translator of Hegel and popularized his work
- Louis Jacolliot – translator of the Kural
- Georges Jean-Aubry
- Pierre-Eugène Lamairesse – translator of the Kural, Kamasutra and other Indian works
- Marie Léra – translator of Brewster's Millions
- Leconte de Lisle – translator of classical Greek authors
- 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
- Nadine Ribault – translator of The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame
- Madeleine Rolland, translator of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- 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)
- Martina Wachendorff – translator from German and Hungarian
Into Galician[edit]
- Fátima Rodríguez (b. 1961) – Spanish writer, translator, professor
Into German[edit]
- Zoë Beck – translator of several books by Pippa Goldschmidt and others, as well as popular television series
- August Friedrich Caemmerer – translator of the Kural
- Karl Graul – translator of the Kural
- 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 Kural
- Schlegel and Tieck – produced the most famous German translation of Shakespeare
- Albert Schweitzer
- Johann Heinrich Voss – translator of classical poetry into German
Into Greek[edit]
Into Gujarati[edit]
- Kantilal L. Kalani – translator of the Kural
- P. C. Kokila – translator of the Kural
Into Hebrew[edit]
- 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
- 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
- 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[edit]
- Agneya
- Harivansh Rai 'Bachchan'
- Dharmveer Bharti
- Nand Chaturvedi
- Chandrakant Devtale
- Teji Grover
- B. D. Jain – translator of the Kural
- Govindaraj Shastri Jain – translator of the Kural
- Anil Janvijay
- Rajesh Joshi
- Vishnu Khare
- Jitendra Kumar
- Mukund Lath
- Sankar Raju Naidu – translator of the Kural
- Rajan Pillai – translator of the Kural
- Suman Pokhrel
- Uday Prakash
- Khan Chand Rahit – translator of the Kural
- Khenand Rakat – translator of the Kural
- Padma Sachdev
- Raghuvir Sahay
- Ananda Sandhidut – translator of the Kural
- K. Seshadri – translator of the Kural
- Ramesh Chandra Shah
- Vinod Sharma
- Hemant Shesh
- Kedarnath Singh
- Krishna Baldev Vaid
- Ashok Vajpeyi
- M. G. Venkatakrishnan – translator of the Kural
- Shrikant Verma
- Ganga Prasad Vimal
Into Interlingua[edit]
- Alexander Gode – translator of scientific and medical literature into Interlingua
Into Italian[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Shuzo Matsunaga – translator of the Kural
- Ogai Mori – translator of Goethe and Andersen (from the German)
- Haruki Murakami – translator of Raymond Chandler
- Maruya Saiichi – translator of Joyce
- Takanobu Takahashi – translator of the Kural
Into Juhuri[edit]
- Sergey Izgiyaev – translator of 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 Kannada[edit]
- L. Gundappa – translator of the Kural
- B. M. Srikanthaiah – translator of the Kural
- S. Srinivasan – translator of the Kural
Into Konkani[edit]
- Suresh Gundu Amonkar – translator of the Kural, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Gospel of John and Dnyaneshwari.
- N. Purushothama Maliaya – translator of the Kural
Into Latin[edit]
- Constanzo Beschi – translator of the Kural
- Boniface Consiliarius – translator of numerous church documents from Greek into Latin
- Karl Graul – translator of the Kural
- Herman of Carinthia – translator of 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 Malayalam[edit]
- Vennikkulam Gopala Kurup – translator of the Kural
- G. Balakrishnan Nair – translator of the Kural
- Tiruvallam G. Bhaskaran Nair – translator of the Kural
Into Marathi[edit]
- Sane Guruji – translator of the Kural
Into Meitei[edit]
- Soibam Rebika Devi – translator of the Kural
Into Nepali[edit]
Into Odia[edit]
- Chittaranjan Das – translator of the Kural and Arabindo Ghose
- Gananath Das – translator of the Kural, works of Kabir Das and Guru Nanak
Into Persian[edit]
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad – translator of works by Camus, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, etc.
- Lili Golestan – translator of works by Andrew Andry, Oriana Fallaci, Christopher Frank, etc.
Into Polish[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Machado de Assis
- Carlos do Amaral Freire
- Daniel Galera
- Monteiro Lobato
- Décio Pignatari – translator of Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and McLuhan
- Abraham Usque
Into Punjabi[edit]
- Tarlochan Singh Bedi – translator of the Kural
Into Russian[edit]
- Ivan Bunin – translator of The Song of Hiawatha
- Alexander Druzhinin – translator of several of Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of George Crabbe
- 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 (from memory)
- 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
- Mikhail Lozinsky – made the classical translation of The Divine Comedy
- Samuil Marshak – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works
- Aleksey Mikhalyov – translator of John Steinbeck's East of Eden and many other authors, as well as numerous films and cartoons
- 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
- 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[edit]
- S. N. Sriramadesikan – translator of the Kural
Into Saurashtra[edit]
Into Spanish[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Julius Nyerere – first president of Tanzania, translated Shakespeare into Swahili
Into Swedish[edit]
- Carl August Hagberg – translator of Shakespeare
Into Tamil[edit]
- Virai Kaviraja Pandithar – translator of Saundarya Lahari
See also[edit]
- Literature
- Philosophy
- Translation
- Self-translation
- List of translators into English
- List of women translators