List of translators into English
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[edit] Translators of Greek and Latin classics into English
[edit] Translators of Homer
- George Chapman (Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, 1614-15)
- Alexander Pope (Iliad, 1715-1720; Odyssey, 1725-6)
- William Cowper (complete, 1791)
- Samuel Butler
- Andrew Lang and Samuel Henry Butcher (complete, in prose, 1879)
- T. E. Lawrence
- E. V. Rieu
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Richmond Lattimore
- Robert Fagles
- Stanley Lombardo
[edit] Translators of Herodotus' The Histories
- Aubrey de Sélincourt
- Robin Waterfield
- Walter Blanco & Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
- George Rawlinson
- David Grene
- William Belloe
- Harry Carter
- Isaac Littlebury
- Henry Cary
[edit] Translators of Sophocles
- George Adams
- Thomas Francklin
- Robert Potter (1721-1804)
- Lewis Theobald (1688-1744)
- Thomas Sheridan
- John Dryden
- Theodore Dwight Woolsey
- Isaac William Stuart (1809-1861)
- Theodore Alois Buckley
- Joseph Bowers Montague Gray (1818-1856)
- Eduard Wunder
- J. G. Brincklé
- Richard Claverhouse Jebb
[edit] Translators of Thucydides
- Richard Crawley
- Henry Dale
[edit] Translators of Plutarch
- Sir Thomas North, translated Plutarch's Parallel Lives via the French of Jacques Amyot. This was the version Shakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays.
- Philemon Holland: Plutarch's Moralia (1603)
- John Dryden and others: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
- Arthur Hugh Clough revised Dryden's version in the nineteenth century
- Rex Warner
[edit] Translators of Lucretius
- Thomas Creech (complete version of De rerum natura, 1682)
- Walter Englert (complete version of De rerum natura, 2002)
- John Dryden (selected passages)
[edit] Translators of Virgil
- Gavin Douglas (the Aeneid into Scots)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (two books of the Aeneid into blank verse)
- John Dryden (complete works)
- Cecil Day-Lewis (complete works)
- Allen Mandelbaum
- Patrick Dickinson
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Clyde Pharr
- Rolfe Humphries
- Stanley Lombardo
- Robert Fagles
- David West
[edit] Translators of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Arthur Golding
- Charles Martin
- Allen Mandelbaum
- Rolfe Humphries
- David R. Slavitt
- John Dryden
- Horace Gregory
[edit] Translators of Lucan
- Christopher Marlowe translated Book One of Lucan's Bellum Civile
- Nicholas Rowe produced a complete translation (1718)
- Robert Graves (prose version)
[edit] Translators of Juvenal
- John Dryden (Satires 1,3,6,10 and 16)
- Robert Lowell (Satire 10)
- Peter Green (The 16 Satires)
[edit] Translators of Martial
[edit] Translators of other famous Classical authors
- Philemon Holland, translations of Livy (1600), Pliny the Elder (1601), Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1613) and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632)
- Robert Graves translated Apuleius and Suetonius
- Stephen MacKenna - translator of Plotinus
- Betty Radice
- Ian Scott-Kilvert
- E. F. Watling
- Phillip Vellacott
- Rex Warner - translator of Thucydides
[edit] Translators of The Qur'an
[edit] Translators of Medieval and modern literature into English
[edit] Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics
- Gwyn Jones - also Welsh
- Hermann Palsson
- Magnus Magnusson
- Paul Edwards
- Jesse L. Byock
- Lee M. Hollander
- Anthony Faulkes
- George Johnston
[edit] Translators of Anglo-Saxon
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Seamus Heaney
- Brian Stone
[edit] Translators of The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights
- John Payne
- Jonathan Scott
- Andrew Lang
- Richard Francis Burton - also translated from other Oriental languages, including Sanskrit
- Edward William Lane & Stanley Lane-Poole
- Edward Powys Mathers
- Husain Haddawy
[edit] Translators of Omar Khayyam
[edit] Translators of Dante's Divine Comedy
- Allen Mandelbaum - Also a translator of Latin
- Robert M. Durling
- Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander
- John Ciardi
- W. S. Merwin
- Mark Musa
- Charles Singleton
- Anthony M. Esolen
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- C. H. Sisson
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Robert Pinsky
[edit] Translators of Montaigne's Essays
- John Florio
- Charles Cotton
- Donald Frame
- M. A. Screech
- Wyatt Mason
[edit] Translators of Rabelais
- Thomas Urquhart & Pierre Antoine Motteux
- Jacques LeClercq
- W. F. Smith
- Burton Raffel
- J. M. Cohen
- Samuel Putnam
- Donald Frame
- M. A. Screech
[edit] Translators of Cervantes' Don Quixote
- Thomas Shelton
- Pierre Antoine Motteux
- Tobias Smollett
- Charles Jervas
- Alexander J. Duffield
- John Ormsby (later revised by Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas)
- Henry Edward Watts
- Samuel Putnam
- J. M. Cohen - also a translator of French
- Walter Starkie
- Burton Raffel - also a translator of Old English, Indonesian, Vietnamese
- John Rutherford
- Edith Grossman
[edit] Translators of Goethe
- Thomas Carlyle
- Walter W. Arndt - Also a translator of Russian
- Eric A. Blackall & Victor Lange
- W. H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer
- Michael Hulse
- Louise Bogan
- Louis MacNeice
- Burton Pike
[edit] Translators of Dostoyevsky
- Jessie Coulson
- David Magarshack
- Constance Garnett
- Alan Myers
- Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- David McDuff
- Ignat Avsey
- Michael Scammell
[edit] Translators of Tolstoy
- David Magarshack
- Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
- Constance Garnett
- Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- Rosemary Edmonds
- Ann Dunnigan
- Anthony Briggs
- Peter Constantine
[edit] Translators of Prus
- Jeremiah Curtin
- David Welsh
- Christopher Kasparek
[edit] Translators of Mann
[edit] Translators of Kafka
- Breon Mitchell
- Mark Harman
- Idris Parry
- Willa Muir & Edwin Muir
- Malcolm Pasley
- J. A. Underwood
[edit] Translators of Musil
- Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser
- Sophie Wilkins & Burton Pike
- Philip Payne
[edit] Translators of Proust
- Scott Moncrieff, Stephen Hudson, Terence Kilmartin & D. J. Enright
- Christopher Prendergast, with Lydia Davis, Mark Treharne, James Grieve, John Sturrock, Carol Clark, Peter Collier, & Ian Patterson
- Joachim Neugroschel
[edit] Translators of Flaubert
[edit] Translators of Borges
- Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- Andrew Hurley
- Eliot Weinberger
- Alexander Coleman
- Suzanne Jill Levine
- Alastair Reid
- Donald A. Yates
- James E. Irby
[edit] Other French to English translators
- Gilbert Adair
- Robert Baldick
- David Bellos
- Robin Buss
- Mary Ann Caws
- Patricia Claxton
- Peter Constantine
- Sheila Fischman - translator of Quebec literature
- Grace Frick - translator of Marguerite Yourcenar
- Stuart Gilbert
- Arthur Goldhammer
- Richard Howard
- A. J. Krailsheimer
- Wyatt Mason
- Justin O'Brien - translator of Albert Camus
- Douglas Parmee
- Andrew Brown
- C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
- Ellen Sowchek - translator of Luc Besson
- Francis Steegmuller
- Leonard Tancock
- Geoffrey Wall - specialist in Gustave Flaubert
- Barbara Wright
[edit] Other German to English translators
- Thomas Carlyle translated Jean Paul
- Jean Starr Untermeyer - translated Broch
- C. V. Wedgwood - translated Canetti
- Michael Hamburger - translated Hoelderlin, Celan
- Daniele Pantano - translator of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Georg Trakl
- Hilda Rosner - translated Hesse
- Edward Snow - translated Rilke
- Stephen Mitchell - translated Rilke and others
- Leila Vennewitz - translated Boell, Jurek Becker and others
[edit] Other Italian to English translators
- William Arrowsmith
- Keith Botsford
- Peter Constantine - translator of Niccolo Machiavelli
- Jonathan Galassi
- Raymond Rosenthal - translator of Levi
- William Weaver
- Stuart Woolf - translator of Levi
- Beryl de Zoete - translator of Svevo
[edit] Other Spanish to English translators
- Lucia Graves - translator of Zafón and daughter of Robert Graves.
- James Mabbe
- Andrew Hurley - translator of Arenas, Borges, Valdez and several other Latin American writers.
- Gregory Rabassa - prolific translator of Márquez, Cortazar and several others.
- Margaret Sayers Peden - translator of Quiroga, Neruda, Fuentes and several other Latin American writers.
[edit] Other Russian to English translators
- Max Hayward
- Michael Glenny
- Mirra Ginsburg
- Alan Myers
- Ronald Hingley
- John Glad
- Alec Vagapov
- Ronald Wilks
- Vladimir Nabokov
[edit] Other Polish to English translators
- Michael Kandel translated novels by Stanislaw Lem
- Louis Iribarne also translated Lem as well as Witkiewicz
- Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney produced a version of the Laments of Jan Kochanowski
- John and Bogdana Carpenter translated Zbigniew Herbert, as did Czeslaw Milosz
[edit] Irish to English translators
- Thomas Kinsella translated the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
- Frank O'Connor translated Brian Merriman's Midnight Court
- Seamus Heaney's Sweeney Astray is a version of the Medieval poem Buile Suibhne
- Kenneth Jackson, translator of A Celtic Miscellany
[edit] Welsh to English translators
- Charlotte Guest produced the first retelling of the Mabinogion
- Gwyn Jones also translated the Mabinogion
- Kenneth Jackson, translator of A Celtic Miscellany
[edit] Other Korean to English translators
- Keyman Hong; Kiman Hong
- Yeonhyang Lee
- Hyeonghwa Nam
- Sumi Kim
- Hyangseon Lee
[edit] Other Japanese to English translators
- Nancy Andrew - translator of Ryū Murakami's novel, Almost Transparent Blue.
- Donald Keene
- Lucien Stryk & Takahashi Ikemoto
- Don Philippi - translator of Japanese and Ainu. Translated the Kojiki, also a noted technical translator.
- Alexander O. Smith - Professional translator who worked on translations of different medias, but is most famous for the English localizations of videogames like Final Fantasy X, Ace Attorney, and Vagrant Story.
- Royall Tyler - translator of The Tale of Genji as well as various Japanese folklore and Noh plays.
[edit] Other Chinese to English translators
- Jane English
- David Hawkes - translator of the Chinese classic Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
- Arthur Waley
[edit] Other Yiddish to English translators
- Curt Leviant - translator of Sholom Aleichem, Chaim Grade, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
[edit] Other Persian to English translators
- Sir William Jones
- A. J. Arberry
- Dick Davis, translator of Attar and Ferdowsi
[edit] Translators of multiple languages into English
- Joachim Neugroschel - French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish
- Guido Waldman - French, Italian
- John Sturrock - French, Spanish
- John Wood - French, German
- W. S. Merwin - Ancient Greek, Spanish, Italian, Old English
- Anthea Bell - French, German, Danish, Polish
- Michael Henry Heim - Russian, Czech, German, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian
- Peter Constantine - Russian, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Albanian
- Ewald Osers - translator of Czech, German
- Burton Raffel - Old English, Indonesian, German, Ancient Greek, Spanish, French, Old French, Middle High German, Latin
- Ralph Manheim - German, French
- Abraham Regelson - award winning poet and translator of Hebrew and Yiddish
[edit] Other translators into English
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Alamgir Hashmi
- David Homel - translator of Quebec literature into English
- Charles Muller
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Taufiq Rafat - translated classical Punjabi poetry into English
- Cecil Parrott - translator of The Good Soldier Svejk.
- Celina Wieniewska - translator of Polish, esp. Bruno Schulz
- Jerzy Ficowski - translator of Polish, esp. Bruno Schulz
- David H. Rosenthal - translator of Tirant Lo Blanc from Catalan
- Norma Comrada - translator of Czech, esp. Karel Capek
- Christina Pribicevic-Zoric - translator of Serbo-Croatian, esp. Milorad Pavić
- Victor G. Kiernan
- Reynold A. Nicholson
[edit] Philosophy
[edit] Translators of Ancient Chinese classics
- James Legge
- Jerome Seaton
- David Hinton
- Richard Wilhelm
- Thomas Cleary
- Robert G. Henricks
[edit] Translators of Ancient Indian classics
[edit] 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. Reeve
- W. R. M. Lamb
- John M. Cooper
- T. A. Sinclair
- Walter Englert
[edit] Translators of Aquinas
- Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Ralph McInerny
- Timothy McDermott
[edit] Translators of Descartes
- Elizabeth Haldane, G. R. T. Ross
- Donald A. Cress
- John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff & Dugald Murdoch
[edit] Translators of Spinoza
- Robert Harvey Monro Elwes
- Andrew Boyle
- George H. R. Parkinson
- Edwin Curley
- Samuel Shirley
[edit] Translators of Leibniz
- G. H. R. Parkinson
- Peter Remnant & Jonathan Bennett
[edit] Translators of Vico
- Thomas Goddard Bergin & Max Harold Fisch
[edit] Translators of Kant
- J. M. Meiklejohn
- Max Mueller
- Norman Kemp Smith
- Werner S. Pluhar
- Gary Hatfield
- Allen Wood & Paul Guyer
[edit] Translators of Hegel
- J. Sibree
- T. M. Knox
- Arnold V. Miller
- Hugh Barr Nisbet
[edit] Translators of Schopenhauer
- T. Bailey Saunders
- E. F. J. Payne
[edit] Translators of Kierkegaard
- Alastair Hannay
- Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong
[edit] Translators of Nietzsche
[edit] Translators of Heidegger's Being and Time
- John Macquarie & Edward Robinson
- Joan Stambaugh
[edit] Translators of Derrida
- Alan Bass
- Geoffrey Bennington
- Elizabeth Rottenberg
- Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak
- Thomas Dutoit
- Peggy Kamuf
[edit] Other translators
- J. N. Findlay - Husserl
- Colin Smith - Merleau-Ponty
- Elizabeth Anscombe - Wittgenstein
- Michael Dummett - Frege
- Hazel E. Barnes - Sartre
- Andrew Bowie - Schelling, Schleiermacher
[edit] Other
- E. A. Wallis Budge - translated The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Charles Francis Atkinson - translated Spengler
