List of translators into English
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"The first fine translations into English were made in the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer, who adapted from the Italian of Giovanni Boccaccio in his own Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde; began a translation of the French-language Roman de la Rose; and completed a translation of Boethius from the Latin. Chaucer founded an English poetic tradition on adaptations and translations from those earlier-established literary languages. The first great English translation was the Wycliffe Bible (ca. 1382), which showed the weaknesses of an underdeveloped English prose. Only at the end of the 15th century did the great age of English prose translation begin with Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur—an adaptation of Arthurian romances so free that it can, in fact, hardly be called a true translation. The first great Tudor translations are, accordingly, the Tyndale New Testament (1525), which influenced the Authorized Version (1611), and Lord Berners' version of Jean Froissart's Chronicles (1523–25)."--Sholem Stein |
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Translators of Greek and Latin classics into English
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Translators of Homer
- Samuel Butler
- George Chapman (Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, 1614-15)
- Robert Fagles
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Andrew Lang and Samuel 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
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Translators of Herodotus' The Histories
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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
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Translators of Thucydides
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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 of Jacques Amyot. This was the version Shakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays.
- Rex Warner
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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)
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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 into blank verse)
- Rolfe Humphries
- Stanley Lombardo
- Allen Mandelbaum
- Clyde Pharr
- David West
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Translators of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- John Dryden
- Arthur Golding
- Horace Gregory
- Rolfe Humphries
- Allen Mandelbaum
- Charles Martin
- David R. Slavitt
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Translators of Lucan
- Robert Graves (prose version)
- Christopher Marlowe translated Book One of Lucan's Bellum Civile
- Nicholas Rowe produced a complete translation (1718)
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Translators of Juvenal
- John Dryden (Satires 1,3,6,10 and 16)
- Peter Green (The 16 Satires)
- Robert Lowell (Satire 10)
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Translators of Martial
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Translators of other famous Classical authors
- Robert Graves translated Apuleius and Suetonius
- Philemon Holland, translations of Livy (1600), Pliny the Elder (1601), Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1613) and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632)
- Stephen MacKenna - translator of Plotinus
- Betty Radice
- Ian Scott-Kilvert
- Phillip Vellacott
- E. F. Watling
- Rex Warner - translator of Thucydides
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Translators of The Qur'an
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Translators of Medieval and modern literature into English
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Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics
- George Borrow
- Jesse L. Byock
- Paul Edwards
- Anthony Faulkes
- Lee M. Hollander
- George Johnston
- Gwyn Jones - also Welsh
- Magnus Magnusson
- Hermann Palsson
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Translators of Anglo-Saxon
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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
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Translators of Omar Khayyam
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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
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Translators of Montaigne's Essays
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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
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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
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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
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Translators of Dostoyevsky
- Jessie Coulson
- David Magarshack
- Constance Garnett
- Alan Myers
- Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- David McDuff
- Ignat Avsey
- Michael Scammell
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Translators of Tolstoy
- David Magarshack
- Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
- Constance Garnett
- Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
- Rosemary Edmonds
- Ann Dunnigan
- Anthony Briggs
- Peter Constantine
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Translators of Prus
- Jeremiah Curtin
- David Welsh
- Christopher Kasparek
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Translators of Mann
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Translators of Kafka
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Translators of Musil
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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
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Translators of Flaubert
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Translators of Borges
- Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- Andrew Hurley
- Eliot Weinberger
- Alexander Coleman
- Suzanne Jill Levine
- Alastair Reid
- Donald A. Yates
- James E. Irby
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Other French to English translators
- Gilbert Adair
- Robert Baldick
- David Bellos
- Andrew Brown
- 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
- Tina Kover
- A. J. Krailsheimer
- Wyatt Mason
- Justin O'Brien - translator of Albert Camus
- Douglas Parmee
- C. K. Scott-Moncrieff
- Ellen Sowchek - translator of Luc Besson
- Francis Steegmuller
- Leonard Tancock
- Geoffrey Wall - specialist in Gustave Flaubert
- Barbara Wright
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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
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Other Italian to English translators
- William Arrowsmith
- Keith Botsford
- Peter Constantine - translator of Niccolò Machiavelli
- Jonathan Galassi
- Raymond Rosenthal - translator of Levi
- William Weaver
- Stuart Woolf - translator of Levi
- Beryl de Zoete - translator of Svevo
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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.
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Other Russian to English translators
- Max Hayward
- Michael Glenny
- Mirra Ginsburg
- Alan Myers
- Ronald Hingley
- John Glad
- Alec Vagapovhttp://vagalecs.narod.ru/
- Ronald Wilks
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Other Polish to English translators
- Michael Kandel translated novels by Stanisław Lem
- Louis Iribarne also translated Lem as well as Witkiewicz
- Stanisław Baranczak and Seamus Heaney produced a version of the Laments of Jan Kochanowski
- John and Bogdana Carpenter translated Zbigniew Herbert, as did Czesław Miłosz
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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
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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
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Other Korean to English translators
- Keyman Hong; Kiman Hong
- Yeonhyang Lee
- Bruce & Juchan Fulton
- Hyeonghwa Nam
- Sumi Kim
- Hyangseon Lee
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Other Japanese to English translators
- Nancy Andrew - translator of Ryū Murakami's novel, Almost Transparent Blue.
- Donald Keene
- Ian Hideo Levy. Translator and also one of the first Westerners to write a novel in Japanese.
- 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 media, 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.
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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
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Other Yiddish to English translators
- Curt Leviant - translator of Sholom Aleichem, Chaim Grade, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Other Persian to English translators
- Sir William Jones
- A. J. Arberry
- Dick Davis, translator of Attar and Ferdowsi
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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
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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 Čapek
- Christina Pribicevic-Zoric - translator of Serbo-Croatian, esp. Milorad Pavić
- Victor G. Kiernan
- Reynold A. Nicholson
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Philosophy
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Translators of Ancient Chinese classics
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Translators of Ancient Indian classics
- Annie Besant
- Juan Mascaro
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Max Mueller
- Arthur W. Ryder
- Monier Monier-Williams
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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
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Translators of Aquinas
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Translators of Descartes
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Translators of Spinoza
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Translators of Leibniz
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Translators of Vico
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Translators of Kant
- J. M. Meiklejohn
- Max Mueller
- Norman Kemp Smith
- Werner S. Pluhar
- Gary Hatfield
- Allen Wood & Paul Guyer
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Translators of Hegel
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Translators of Schopenhauer
- T. Bailey Saunders
- E. F. J. Payne (1939-1983)
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Translators of Kierkegaard
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Translators of Nietzsche
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Translators of Heidegger's Being and Time
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Translators of Derrida
- Alan Bass
- Geoffrey Bennington
- Elizabeth Rottenberg
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Thomas Dutoit
- Peggy Kamuf
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Other translators
- J. N. Findlay - Husserl
- Colin Smith - Merleau-Ponty
- Elizabeth Anscombe - Wittgenstein
- Michael Dummett - Frege
- Hazel E. Barnes - Sartre
- Andrew Bowie - Schelling, Schleiermacher
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Other
- E. A. Wallis Budge - translated The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Charles Francis Atkinson - translated Spengler
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See also
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