This is primarily a list of notable translators . Large sublists have been split off to separate articles.
By text
By target language
Into Afrikaans
Into Albanian
Into Arabic
Into Armenian
Into Bengali
Into Bulgarian
Into Catalan
Into Chinese
Lucy Chao – translator of The Waste Land T. S. Eliot , The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Chen Liangting – translator of The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis , The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett and Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Lucifer Chu – translator of fantasy novels including the Dragonlance Chronicle Margaret Weis and The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien Fu Lei – translator of works by Honoré de Balzac , Romain Rolland , Bertrand Russell and Voltaire Huang Ai – translator of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Jiang Feng – translator of poetry works by Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley ; winner of the Lu Xun Literary Prize Ma Zhencheng – translator of works by Michel de Montaigne , Milan Kundera , André Gide , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Marguerite Duras Mei Yi – translator of How the Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky Ren Rongrong – translator of Italian fairy tales and children's literatureSong Zhaolin – translator of Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë and A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Charles Dickens Sun Zhili – translator of works by Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway Wang Chong Wang Weike – translator of Dante 's Divina Commedia Wen Jieruo – translator from English and JapaneseXiang Xingyao – translator of the works of the Russian writer Alexander Herzen Yang Jingyuan – translator of works by Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë Yu Hsi – translator of the Kural Zi Zhongyun – translator of Civil Servant by Honoré de Balzac , Philosophy by Alain de Botton , Oh, the Pioneer and The Bohemia Girl by Willa Cather and The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller
Into Croatian
Into Czech
Jaroslava Moserová – translator of over forty books by Dick Francis Anna Řeháková – translator of German women's novelsKamil V. Zvelebil – translator of the Kural and other ancient Tamil worksZora Wolfová – translator of works by Charles Darwin , Arthur Conan Doyle , Nora Ephron , Martha Grimes , Doris Lessing , Alan Marshall , Vance Palmer , Cyril Northcote Parkinson , Ellis Peters , Katharine Susannah Prichard , Arthur Ransome and Margaret Yorke among others
Into Danish
Into Dutch
Kader Abdolah – translator of the Qu'ran Anneke Brassinga – translator of works by George Orwell , Oscar Wilde , Vladimir Nabokov , Samuel Beckett , Sylvia Plath , Patricia Highsmith , W.H. Auden , Hermann Broch , Jean Jacques Rousseau , Marcel Proust and Jules Verne Daniël de Clercq – translator of Eduard Baltzer Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld – translator of Ludwig Philippson 's oratio Mose auf Nebo, Grace Aguilar 's Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings and a series of Norwegian articles by Henrik Wergeland Caroline van der Hucht-Kerkhoven – translator of Anna Kingsford and Eduard BaltzerMax Schuchart – translator of English novels by Daniel Defoe , Terry Goodkind , William Horwood and Salman Rushdie among others
Into English
Muztar Abbasi – translator of the Qu'ran Ujaku Akita – translator of Japanese works by Junko Sibata and Haĵime ŜuzuiNadija Hordijenko Andrianova – translator of Ukrainian works by Taras Shevchenko , Ivan Franko , Lesya Ukrainka , Maksym Rylsky , Oles Honchar , Ivan Drach and Yevhen Hutsalo William Auld – translator of English works by Edward Fitzgerald , Christopher Fry , Harry Harrison , Jack London , J. R. R. Tolkien, and Oscar Wilde amongst othersGerrit Berveling – translator of the Book of Numbers Louise Briggs – translator of William Shakespeare's works and children's songsHendrik Bulthuis – translator of Les Deux Billets Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian , The Lion of Flanders Hendrik Conscience and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë among othersRosa Junck – translator of La Floro De L' Pasinto (1906) and Kverko kaj Floro (1906) by Edmondo De Amicis Carlo Minnaja – translator of The Mistress of the Inn Carlo Goldoni and the poems of Cesare Pavese Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer – translator of English hymnsJenny Weleminsky – translator of works by Franz Grillparzer , Anastasius Grün and Alexander Roda Roda L. L. Zamenhof – creator of Esperanto and translator of the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament )
Into Estonian
Viiu Härm – translator of Latvian poetryAnton thor Helle – translator of the Bible Doris Kareva – translator of works by Anna Akhmatova , W. H. Auden , and Samuel Beckett , Joseph Brodsky , Emily Dickinson , Kahlil Gibran , Kabir and ShakespeareAnne Lill – translator of classic works by Apuleius , Aristophanes , Aristotle and Euripides and of philosophical works by Sigmund Freud , Friedrich Nietzsche and Leonid Stolovich .Minni Nurme – translator from English and FinnishAnts Oras – translator of works by Alexander Pope , Alexander Pushkin , Shakespeare and Virgil Ly Seppel – translator of a selection of stories from One Thousand and One Nights Enn Soosaar – translator of works by Ernest Hemingway , William Faulkner and Saul Bellow Haljand Udam – translator of Omar Khayyam 's Rubaiyat Rudaki , Saadi and Ibn Tufail
Into Faroese
Into Fijian
Into Finnish
Into French
Into Galician
Into German
Zoë Beck – translator of several works by Pippa Goldschmidt and others, as well as popular television seriesAugust Friedrich Caemmerer – translator of the Kural Margaret Carroux – translator of Leopold Trepper and J. R. R. TolkienSvetlana Geier – translator of works by Tolstoy , Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn from RussianLuise Gottsched – translator of The Spectator Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope and other English and French worksKarl Graul – translator of the Kural Markus Hediger – translator of the novels of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz and the poems of Nicolas Bouvier Henny Koch – first translator of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain in 1890Wolfgang Krege – translator of A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess and works by Amélie Nothomb Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont – medieval translator of four French romances (chansons de geste Odo Arpin of Bourges , Sibille, Loher & Maller and Hug ChaplerCläre Mjøen – translator of Knut Hamsun 's travel writing and short stories, along with works by other Nordic writersFriedrich Rückert – translator of the Kural August Wilhelm Schlegel – translator of ShakespeareEleanor of Scotland – medieval translator of The History of the King's Son of Galicia, named Pontus, and the beautiful Sydonia (Pontus and Sidonia ) from FrenchHilde Spiel – translator of works by William Macneile Dixon , Edna O'Brien and Tom Stoppard among othersDorothea Tieck – translator of ShakespeareJohann Heinrich Voss – translator of classical poetry
Into Greek
Demetris Th. Gotsis – translator of poetry by Ingeborg Bachmann , Johannes Bobrowski , Stefan George , Friedrich Hölderlin , Sarah Kirsch , Rainer Maria Rilke and Nelly Sachs among othersNana Isaia – translator of works by Susan Sontag , Sylvia Plath , T. S. Eliot , Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou – translator of works by Karl Marx , Sigmund Freud , Charles Gide and Sidney Hook among othersDimitrios Triantafyllidis – translator of Russian literature, founder of the literary almanac "Στέπα"
Into Gujarati
Into Hawaiian
Into Hebrew
Yehuda Alharizi – translator of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed and Arabic maqama poetryGili Bar-Hillel – translator of children's literature by Jacqueline Wilson , Diana Wynne Jones and Noel Streatfeild among othersCabret – translator from Latin at the end of 14th centuryT. Carmi – translator of ShakespeareAbraham 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 ArabicEmperor D. Pedro II – translator of poetry by Luís de Camões from PortugueseAbraham Regelson – translator of literature from English and YiddishYitzhak Salkinsohn – 19th century translator of John Milton and ShakespeareRachel Shapira – translator of songs, such as Don McLean 's "Genesis", sung by Gali Atari , Julie Gold 's "From a Distance ", sung by Ruhama Raz , and Sting 's "Fields of Gold ", sung by Dorit FarkashAbraham Shlonsky – translator of Shakespeare, Nikolai Gogol , and othersAdin Steinsaltz – translator of dozens of volumes of Talmud from Aramaic Shaul Tchernichovsky – prolific literary translatorSafrira Zachai – film dubbing director and translator
Into Hindi
Into Hungarian
Into Icelandic
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 othersGrazyna Miller – translator of Pope John Paul II 's Roman Triptych: Meditations Cesare Pavese – translator of Herman Melville , Charles Dickens and othersHamza Roberto Piccardo – translator of the Qu'ran Fernanda Pivano – translator of works by Gregory Corso , Ernest Hemingway , Francis Scott Fitzgerald , William Faulkner , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Allen Ginsberg , Edgar Lee Masters and Thornton Wilder among other English-language authorsVittoria Alliata di Villafranca – translator of TolkeinElio Vittorini – translator of works by Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan , John Steinbeck , Erskine Caldwell , William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence and Edgar Allan Poe
Into Japanese
Into Juhuri
Into Kannada
Into Konkani
Into Latin
Into Latvian
Into Lithuanian
Into Malayalam
Into Manx
Into Mongolian
Into Mota
Into Nepali
Into Norwegian
Into Odia
Into Oromo
Into Persian
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 Maria Skibniewska – translator of world literature, including the works of Chinua Achebe , Margaret Craven , William Faulkner , Graham Greene , Halldór Laxness , Françoise Mallet-Joris , Maria Rosseels , Flannery O'Connor , J. D. Salinger , Alan Sillitoe , Herbert George Wells and Patrick White amongst othersMaciej Słomczyński – translator of James Joyce 's Ulysses 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 Pierre-Jean de Béranger , Goethe , Heinrich Heine , Mikhail Lermontov , Nikolay Nekrasov and Taras Shevchenko Julian Tuwim – translator of Alexander Pushkin and other Russian poetsAdam Ważyk – translator of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin Aniela Zagórska – translator of the works of Joseph Conrad
Into Portuguese
Machado de Assis translator of works by Charles Dickens, Émile de Girardin , Victor Hugo and Edgar Allan PoeCarlos do Amaral Freire – translator of world poetryDaniel Galera Monteiro Lobato – translator of Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs , Sorrell and Son Warwick Deeping , Les Travailleurs de la Mer Victor Hugo , Kim The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling , Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter and Dear Enemy Just Patty Jean Webster among othersClarice Lispector – translator of works by Agatha Christie , Oscar Wilde, and Edgar Allan Poe.Décio Pignatari – translator of works by Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and McLuhanLia Wyler – translator of works by Margaret Atwood , Stephen King , Henry Miller , Joyce Carol Oates , Sylvia Plath , Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe among others
Into Punjabi
Into Romanian
Into Russian
Lidiia Alekseeva (1909–1989) – translator the works of Croatian writer Ivan Gundulić Ivan Bunin – translator of The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alexander Druzhinin – translator of several of Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of George Crabbe Janina Dziarnowska – translator of Polish literatureNora Gal – translator of the works of science fiction authors, including Isaac Asimov , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny and Ursula K. Le Guin 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 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 Mikhail Lozinsky – made the classical translation of The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Samuil Marshak – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other worksAleksey Mikhalyov – translator East of Eden John Steinbeck and many other authors, as well as films and cartoonsMidori Miura – translator of Non-chan kumo ni noru by Momoko Ishii Vladimir Muravyov – translator of The Great Pursuit Tom Sharpe Vladimir Nabokov – translator of Alice in Wonderland Lolita Boris Pasternak – translator of Faust Hamlet Rita Rait-Kovaleva – translator of The Catcher in the Rye William Faulkner , Franz Kafka and Heinrich Böll
Into Sanskrit
Into Saurashtra
Into Spanish
Into Swahili
Into Swedish
Into Tamil
Into Thai
Into Turkish
Thomas Cosmades – translator of the New Testament of the Bible Nurduran Duman – translator of the poems of Anne Sexton , Sara Teasdale , Edna St. Vincent Millay , and Sylvia Plath , and Alma Alexander 's book The Secrets of Jin-shei Sabahattin Eyüboğlu – translator of works by Michel de Montaigne , Jean de La Fontaine , Ivan Goncharov , William Shakespeare , Plato , Albert Camus , François Rabelais , Paul Valéry , Jean-Paul Sartre , Aristophanes , Omar Khayyám , Arthur Miller , Molière , Franz Kafka , Bertrand Russell and François-Noël Babeuf Sevin Okyay – translator of works by James Baldwin , Agatha Christie , Ted Hughes , H. P. Lovecraft , Edouard Roditi and J. K. Rowling, among others
Into Ukrainian
Perepadia Anatol – translator of Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais and In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust Kateryna Mikhalitsyna – translator of works by Sylvia Plath , Alfred Szklarski , J. R. R. Tolkien and Oscar WildeOleksandr Mokrovolskyi – translator of world literature and scholarly works by Richard Adams , John Ciardi , Eoin Colfer , Wilkie Collins , Charles Dickens , Jean Bethke Elshtain , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Alfonso Grosso , Seamus Heaney , Justinas Marcinkevičius , Salvatore Quasimodo , Christina Rossetti , Joan Samson , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Tristan Tzara and Slavoj Žižek among othersOleksa Nehrebets'kyi – translator of feature films and TV seriesIryna Shuvalova – translator of Life of Pi Yann Martel and Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur
Into Urdu
Into Vietnamese
Into Xhosa
Into Zulu
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