List of translators into English explained
See main article: List of translators.
Translators of Homer
See main article: List of English translations of De rerum natura.
NB: His only work was De rerum natura.
Translators of Virgil
Translators of Ovid's Metamorphoses
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
Translators of Martial
See main article: Tirukkural translations into English.
Translators of other famous Classical authors
Translators of Medieval and modern literature into English
Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics
Translators of Anglo-Saxon
Translators of The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights
See main article: article and List of English translations of the Divine Comedy.
Translators of Goethe
Translators of Dostoyevsky
Translators of Tolstoy
Translators of Prus
Translators of Mann
Translators of Kafka
Translators of Musil
Translators of Proust
Translators of Borges
Other French to English translators
Other German to English translators
- Thomas Carlyle – translated Jean Paul
- Michael Hamburger – translated Hölderlin, Celan
- Mary E. Ireland – translated Bertha Clement, Elise von Fernhain, Nikolaus Fries, Elizabeth Halden, John J. Messmer, Karl Gustav Nieritz, Otto Nietschmann, Emma Von Rhoden, Richard Roth, Emma Seifert
- Ralph Manheim – translated Günter Grass, Bertolt Brecht and many others
- Stephen Mitchell – translated Rilke and others
- Natias Neutert – translated Gottfried Benn, Eichendorff, Ringelnatz and others
- Herman George Scheffauer- translated Rosa Mayreder, Georg Kaiser and others
- Edward Snow – translated Rilke
- Jean Starr Untermeyer – translated Broch
- Leila Vennewitz – translated Boll, Jurek Becker and others
- C. V. Wedgwood – translated Canetti
- Shaun Whiteside – translated Freud, Marlen Haushofer, and Bernhard Schlink
Other Italian to English translators
Other Spanish to English translators
See also: List of Calderón's plays in English translation.
- Harriet de Onís -- translator of Alejo Carpentier, Ricardo Güiraldes, Fernando Ortiz, Ernesto Sábato, Ricardo Palma and several other Latin American writers.
- Margaret Jull Costa – translator of Fernando Pessoa, Javier Marías
- Lucia Graves – translator of Zafón and daughter of Robert Graves
- Edith Grossman – translator of Miguel de Cervantes, Luis de Góngora, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, Álvaro Mutis, Antonio Muñoz Molina and many other major Latin American and Spanish writers
- Andrew Hurley – translator of Arenas, Borges, Valdés and several other Latin American writers
- James Mabbe -- early translator of Cervantes and Mateo Alemán.
- Anne McLean – translator of Enrique Vila-Matas and Julio Cortázar
- Margaret Sayers Peden – translator of Horacio Quiroga, Pablo Neruda, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo and several other Latin American writers
- Gregory Rabassa – prolific translator of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and several others
- Frank Wynne – translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Esther Allen – translator of Antonio Di Benedetto, Felisberto Hernández, Jorge Luis Borges, Javier Marías and several other Latin American writers.
Other Russian to English translators
Other Polish to English translators
Irish to English translators
Nepali to English translators
Welsh to English translators
Other Korean to English translators
Other Japanese to English translators
Other Chinese to English translators
Serbian to English translators
Other Yiddish to English translators
Other Persian to English translators
- A. J. Arberry
- Dick Davis, translator of Attar and Ferdowsi (collaborating with Afkham Darband)
- Edward FitzGerald, translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Attar
- Sir William Jones
- Rebecca Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian, translator of Bijan Elahi, Hasan Alizadeh, and various other works
- Wheeler Thackston, translator of Saadi Shirazi, and others
- Sara Khalili, translator of Shahriar Mandanipour, Goli Taraghi, Shahrnush Parsipur, Parinoush Saniee and others
- Niloufar Talebi, translator of Ahmad Shamlou, and several contemporary Iranian poets and writers
- M.R. Ghanoonparvar, translator of Moniro Ravanipour, and classical works
- Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., translator of Hafez, Forugh Farrokhzad, and Simin Behbahani
- Kaveh Bassiri, translator of Roya Zarrin (for which he won a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship), and various other poets
- Desmond Patrick Costello, translator of Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl
- Naveed Noori (pen name), translator of Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl
- Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey, translators of Garous Abdolmalekian
- Sholeh Wolpe, translator of Forugh Farrokhzad, Attar, and various 20th and 21st century poets
Translators of multiple languages into English
- Anthea Bell – French, German, Danish, Polish
- Edward Dundas Butler - Hungarian, Finnish, Romanian
- Peter Constantine – Russian, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Albanian
- George Godfrey Cunningham – German, Italian, French
- Will Firth – Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
- Michael Henry Heim – Russian, Czech, German, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian
- Ralph Manheim – German, French
- W. S. Merwin – Ancient Greek, Spanish, Italian, Old English
- Joachim Neugroschel – French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish
- Ewald Osers – translator of Czech, German
- Burton Raffel – Old English, Indonesian, German, Ancient Greek, Spanish, French, Old French, Middle High German, Latin
- Abraham Regelson – award winning poet and translator of Hebrew and Yiddish
- Douglas Robinson – Finnish, Russian
- C. J. Stevens – Dutch, Flemish
- John Sturrock – French, Spanish
- Wangui wa Goro – Gikuyu, French
- Adolf Zytogorski – German, French, Russian
Other translators into English
Philosophy
Translators of Ancient Chinese classics
Translators of Ancient Indian classics
Sanskrit and Pali
Translators of Hellenistic and Roman philosophers
Translators of Augustine
Translators of Aquinas
Translators of Spinoza
Translators of Leibniz
Translators of Vico
Translators of Kant
Translators of Schopenhauer
Translators of Nietzsche
Translators of Derrida
Other translators
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