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 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

Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)

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

Into Bulgarian

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
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

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
Schlegel and Tieck – produced the most famous German translation of 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

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

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
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

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

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

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
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

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

Into Meitei

Soibam Rebika Devi – translator of the Kural

Into Nepali

Into Odia

Chittaranjan Das – translator of the Kural and Arabindo Ghose
Gananath Das – translator of the Kural, works of Kabir Das and Guru Nanak

Into Persian

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

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

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

Into Punjabi

Tarlochan Singh Bedi – translator of the Kural

Into Russian

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

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

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