List of translators

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

By text

• List of Bible translators
• List of Qur'an translators
• List of Kural translators
• Harry Potter in translation

By target language

Into Albanian

• Faik Konitza
• Mirela Kumbaro
• Fan Noli
• Luan Rama
• Robert Shvarc
• Petro Zheji

Into Arabic

• Ibn al-Muqaffa'
• Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
• Taha Hussein – translator of Sophocles, Racine, and others
• Hafs ibn Albar
• Hafez Ibrahim
• Ahmed Shawqi

Into Armenian

• 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)

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

Into Bulgarian

• Albena Bakratcheva
• Valeri Petrov
• Nikolai B. Popov

Into Chichewa/Chinyanja

• Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga – translator of Things Fall Apart

Into Chinese

• 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

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

Into English

• List of translators into English

Into Fijian

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

Into Finnish

• Pentti Aalto – translator of the Kural

Into French

• Étienne Aignan
• 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
• 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
• Arabian Nights
• François Gros – translator of the
  Paripatal (part of the Eight Anthologies
  )
• Hegel
  and popularized his work
• Louis Jacolliot – translator of the Kural
• Georges Jean-Aubry
• 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
• 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

• Fátima Rodríguez (b. 1961) – Spanish writer, translator, professor

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 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
• Shakespeare
• Albert Schweitzer
• Johann Heinrich Voss – translator of classical poetry into German

Into Greek

Into Gujarati

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

Into Hebrew

• Guide for the Perplexed and Arabic maqama
  poetry
• Cabret – translator from Latin – end of 14th century
• Shakespeare
• 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
• Gogol
  , and others
• 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 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

• 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
• Shakespeare
  's The Tempest into 18th century Neapolitan
• Jerzy Kosinski
  and others
• Grazyna Miller – translator of Pope John Paul II
  's Roman Triptych: Meditations from Polish into Italian
• Dickens
  and others
• 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

• Shuzo Matsunaga – translator of the Kural
• 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

• 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

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

Into Konkani

• Suresh Gundu Amonkar – translator of the Kural, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Gospel of John and Dnyaneshwari.
• N. Purushothama Maliaya – translator of the Kural

Into Latin

• Constanzo Beschi – translator of the Kural
• Boniface Consiliarius – translator of numerous church documents from Greek into Latin
• Karl Graul – translator of the Kural
• 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
• 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 Kural
• G. Balakrishnan Nair – translator of the Kural
• Tiruvallam G. Bhaskaran Nair
  – translator of the Kural

Into Marathi

• Sane Guruji – translator of the Kural

• Soibam Rebika Devi – translator of the Kural

Into Nepali

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

Into Odia

• Arabindo Ghose
• Kabir Das and Guru Nanak

• Dostoyevsky
  , etc.
• Lili Golestan – translator of works by Andrew Andry, Oriana Fallaci, Christopher Frank, etc.

Into Polish

• 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
• Oriental
• 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
• Carlos do Amaral Freire
• Daniel Galera
• Monteiro Lobato
• Goethe and McLuhan
• Abraham Usque

Into Punjabi

• Tarlochan Singh Bedi – translator of the Kural

Into Russian

• Ivan Bunin – translator of The Song of Hiawatha
• Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of George Crabbe
• J. J. Glazov – translator of the Kural and the Cilappatikaram
• 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
• 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
• 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

• S. N. Sriramadesikan – translator of the Kural

Into Saurashtra

• S. S. Ram – translator of the Kural

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

• Virai Kaviraja Pandithar – translator of Saundarya Lahari

See also

• Literature
• Philosophy
• Translation
• Self-translation
• List of translators into English
• List of women translators

References