- List of translators into English
Translators of Greek and Latin classics into English
Translators of
Homer *Samuel Butler
*George Chapman ("Iliad", 1611; "Odyssey", 1614-15)
*Robert Fagles
*Robert Fitzgerald
*Andrew Lang andSamuel Henry Butcher (complete, in prose, 1879)
*Richmond Lattimore
*T. E. Lawrence
*Stanley Lombardo
*William Cowper (complete, 1791)
*Alexander Pope ("Iliad ", 1715-1720; "Odyssey ", 1725-6)
*E. V. Rieu Translators of
Herodotus ' "The Histories "*
Walter Blanco &Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
*William Belloe
*Henry Cary
*Harry Carter
*Aubrey de Sélincourt
*David Grene
*Isaac Littlebury
*George Rawlinson
*Robin Waterfield Translators of
Sophocles *
George Adams
* J. G. Brincklé
*Theodore Alois Buckley
*Richard Claverhouse Jebb
*John Dryden
*Thomas Francklin
*Joseph Bowers Montague Gray (1818-1856)
* Robert Potter (1721-1804)
*Thomas Sheridan
*Isaac William Stuart (1809-1861)
*Lewis Theobald (1688-1744)
*Theodore Dwight Woolsey
*Eduard Wunder Translators of
Thucydides *
Richard Crawley
*Henry Dale *
Thomas Hobbes
*William Smith
*Rex Warner Translators of
Plutarch *
Arthur Hugh Clough revised Dryden's version in the nineteenth century
*John Dryden and others: "Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans"
*Philemon Holland : Plutarch's "Moralia" (1603)
*Sir Thomas North , translated Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" via the French ofJacques Amyot . This was the versionShakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays.
*Rex Warner Translators of
Lucretius *
Thomas Creech (complete version of "De rerum natura ", 1682)
*John Dryden (selected passages)
*Walter Englert (complete version of "De rerum natura ", 2002)Translators of
Virgil *
Cecil Day-Lewis (complete works)
*Patrick Dickinson
*Gavin Douglas (the "Aeneid" into Scots)
*John Dryden (complete works)
*Robert Fagles
*Robert Fitzgerald
*Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (two books of the "Aeneid" intoblank verse )
*Rolfe Humphries
*Stanley Lombardo
*Allen Mandelbaum
*Clyde Pharr
*David WestTranslators of Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
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John Dryden
*Arthur Golding
*Horace Gregory
*Rolfe Humphries
*Allen Mandelbaum
*Charles Martin
*David R. Slavitt
=Translators of Lucan=*
Robert Graves (prose version)
*Christopher Marlowe translated Book One of Lucan's "Bellum Civile"
*Nicholas Rowe produced a complete translation (1718)Translators of
Juvenal *
John Dryden (Satires 1,3,6,10 and 16)
*Peter Green (The 16 Satires)
*Robert Lowell (Satire 10)Translators of
Martial *
Peter Porter Translators of other famous Classical authors
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Robert Graves translatedApuleius andSuetonius
*Philemon Holland , translations ofLivy (1600),Pliny the Elder (1601),Suetonius (1606),Ammianus Marcellinus (1613) andXenophon 's "Cyropaedia" (1632)
*Stephen MacKenna - translator ofPlotinus
*Betty Radice
*Ian Scott-Kilvert
*Phillip Vellacott
*E. F. Watling
*Rex Warner - translator ofThucydides Translators of The "
Qur'an "Translators of Medieval and modern literature into English
Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics
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George Borrow
*Jesse L. Byock
*Paul Edwards
*Anthony Faulkes
*Lee M. Hollander
*George Johnston
*Gwyn Jones - also Welsh
*Magnus Magnusson
*Hermann Palsson Translators of Anglo-Saxon
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
*Seamus Heaney
*Brian Stone Translators of "
The Arabian Nights " or "The Thousand and One Nights "*
Richard Francis Burton - also translated from other Oriental languages, including Sanskrit
*Husain Haddawy
*Edward William Lane &Stanley Lane-Poole
*Andrew Lang
*Edward Powys Mathers
*John Payne
*Jonathan Scott Translators of
Omar Khayyam *
Edward Fitzgerald
*Robert Graves
*John Heath-Stubbs
=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 Translators of Montaigne's "
Essays "*
John Florio
*Charles Cotton
*Donald Frame
*M. A. Screech
*Wyatt Mason 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
=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 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 Translators of
Dostoyevsky *
Jessie Coulson
*David Magarshack
*Constance Garnett
*Alan Myers
*Richard Pevear &Larissa Volokhonsky
*David McDuff
*Ignat Avsey
*Michael Scammell Translators of
Tolstoy *
David Magarshack
*Louise Maude andAylmer Maude
*Constance Garnett
*Richard Pevear &Larissa Volokhonsky
*Rosemary Edmonds
*Ann Dunnigan
*Anthony Briggs
*Peter Constantine
=Translators of Prus=*
Jeremiah Curtin
*David Welsh
*Christopher Kasparek
=Translators of Mann=*
Peter Constantine
*H. T. Lowe-Porter
*John E. Woods Translators of
Kafka *
Breon Mitchell
*Mark Harman
*Idris Parry
*Willa Muir &Edwin Muir
*Malcolm Pasley
*J. A. Underwood Translators of
Musil *
Eithne Wilkins &Ernst Kaiser
*Sophie Wilkins &Burton Pike
*Philip Payne Translators of
Proust *
Scott Moncrieff ,Stephen Hudson ,Terence Kilmartin &D. J. Enright
*Christopher Prendergast , withLydia Davis ,Mark Treharne ,James Grieve ,John Sturrock ,Carol Clark ,Peter Collier , &Ian Patterson
*Joachim Neugroschel Translators of
Flaubert *
Francis Steegmuller Translators of
Borges *
Norman Thomas di Giovanni
*Andrew Hurley
*Eliot Weinberger
*Alexander Coleman
*Suzanne Jill Levine
*Alastair Reid
*Donald A. Yates
*James E. Irby Other French to English translators
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Gilbert Adair
*Robert Baldick
*David Bellos
*Robin Buss
*Mary Ann Caws
*Patricia Claxton
*Peter Constantine
*Sheila Fischman - translator of Quebec literature
*Grace Frick - translator ofMarguerite Yourcenar
*Stuart Gilbert
*Arthur Goldhammer
*Richard Howard
*A. J. Krailsheimer
*Wyatt Mason
*Justin O'Brien - translator ofAlbert Camus
*Douglas Parmee
*Andrew Brown
*C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
*Ellen Sowchek - translator of Luc Besson
*Francis Steegmuller
*Leonard Tancock
*Geoffrey Wall - specialist inGustave Flaubert
*Barbara Wright Other German to English translators
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Thomas Carlyle translatedJean Paul
*Jean Starr Untermeyer - translatedBroch
*C. V. Wedgwood - translatedCanetti
*Michael Hamburger - translatedHoelderlin ,Celan
*Daniele Pantano - translator ofFriedrich Dürrenmatt ,Georg Trakl
*Hilda Rosner - translatedHesse
*Edward Snow - translatedRilke
*Stephen Mitchell - translatedRilke and others
*Leila Vennewitz - translatedBoell ,Jurek Becker and othersOther Italian to English translators
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William Arrowsmith
*Keith Botsford
*Peter Constantine - translator ofNiccolo Machiavelli
*Jonathan Galassi
*Raymond Rosenthal - translator of Levi
*William Weaver
*Stuart Woolf - translator of Levi
*Beryl de Zoete - translator of SvevoOther Spanish to English translators
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Lucia Graves - translator of Zafón and daughter ofRobert Graves .
*James Mabbe
*Andrew Hurley - translator ofArenas ,Borges ,Valdez and several other Latin American writers.
*Gregory Rabassa - prolific translator of Márquez,Cortazar and several others.
*Margaret Sayers Peden - translator ofQuiroga , Neruda,Fuentes and several other Latin American writers.Other Russian to English translators
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Max Hayward
*Michael Glenny
*Mirra Ginsburg
*Alan Myers
*Ronald Hingley
*John Glad
*Alec Vagapov http://vagalecs.narod.ru/
*Ronald Wilks
*Vladimir Nabokov Other Polish to English translators
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Michael Kandel translated novels byStanisław Lem
*Louis Iribarne also translated Lem as well as Witkiewicz
*Stanisław Baranczak andSeamus Heaney produced a version of the "Laments" ofJan Kochanowski
*John and Bogdana Carpenter translatedZbigniew Herbert , as didCzeslaw Milosz Irish to English translators
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Thomas Kinsella translated the epic "Táin Bó Cúailnge"
*Frank O'Connor translatedBrian 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"Welsh to English translators
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Charlotte Guest produced the first retelling of the "Mabinogion "
*Gwyn Jones also translated the "Mabinogion"
*Kenneth Jackson, translator of "A Celtic Miscellany"Other Korean to English translators
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Keyman Hong; Kiman Hong
*Yeonhyang Lee
*Bruce & Juchan Fulton
*Hyeonghwa Nam
*Sumi Kim
*Hyangseon LeeOther Japanese to English translators
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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 theKojiki , also a noted technical translator.
*Alexander O. Smith - Professional translator who worked on translations of different media, but is most famous for the English localizations of videogames likeFinal Fantasy X , Ace Attorney, andVagrant Story .
*Royall Tyler - translator ofThe Tale of Genji as well as various Japanese folklore andNoh plays.Other Chinese to English translators
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Jane English
*David Hawkes - translator of the Chinese classic "Story of the Stone " or "Dream of the Red Chamber ", byCao Xueqin
*Arthur Waley Other Yiddish to English translators
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Curt Leviant - translator ofSholom Aleichem ,Chaim Grade , andIsaac Bashevis Singer .Other Persian to English translators
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Sir William Jones
*A. J. Arberry
*Dick Davis , translator of Attar and FerdowsiTranslators of multiple languages into English
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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 YiddishOther translators into English
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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 Čapek
*Christina Pribicevic-Zoric - translator of Serbo-Croatian, esp. Milorad Pavić
*Victor G. Kiernan
*Reynold A. Nicholson Philosophy
Translators of Ancient Chinese classics
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James Legge
*Jerome Seaton
*David Hinton
*Richard Wilhelm
*Thomas Cleary
*Robert G. Henricks Translators of Ancient Indian classics
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Annie Besant
*Juan Mascaro
*Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
*Max Mueller Translators of Hellenistic and Roman philosophers
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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 Translators of
Aquinas *
Fathers of the English Dominican Province
*Ralph McInerny
*Timothy McDermott Translators of
Descartes *
Elizabeth Haldane ,G. R. T. Ross
*Donald A. Cress
*John Cottingham ,Robert Stoothoff &Dugald Murdoch Translators of
Spinoza *
Robert Harvey Monro Elwes
*Andrew Boyle
*George H. R. Parkinson
*Edwin Curley
*Samuel Shirley Translators of
Leibniz *
G. H. R. Parkinson
*Peter Remnant & Jonathan Bennett
=Translators of Vico=*
Thomas Goddard Bergin &Max Harold Fisch Translators of
Kant *
J. M. Meiklejohn
*Max Mueller
*Norman Kemp Smith
*Werner S. Pluhar
*Gary Hatfield
*Allen Wood &Paul Guyer Translators of
Hegel *
J. Sibree
*T. M. Knox
*Arnold V. Miller
*Hugh Barr Nisbet Translators of
Schopenhauer *
T. Bailey Saunders
*E. F. J. Payne Translators of
Kierkegaard *
Alastair Hannay
*Howard V. Hong &Edna H. Hong Translators of
Nietzsche *
Thomas Common
*R. J. Hollingdale
*Walter Kaufmann Translators of Heidegger's "
Being and Time "*
John Macquarie & Edward Robinson
*Joan Stambaugh Translators of
Derrida *
Alan Bass
*Geoffrey Bennington
*Elizabeth Rottenberg
*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
*Thomas Dutoit
*Peggy Kamuf Other translators
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J. N. Findlay -Husserl
*Colin Smith -Merleau-Ponty
*Elizabeth Anscombe -Wittgenstein
*Michael Dummett -Frege
*Hazel E. Barnes -Sartre
*Andrew Bowie -Schelling ,Schleiermacher Other
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E. A. Wallis Budge - translated "The Egyptian Book of the Dead "
*Charles Francis Atkinson - translated Spengler
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