List of women translators explained

This is a list of women translators of literature.

A

• Mana Aghaee
• Catharina Ahlgren (1734–)
• Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)
• Acija Alfirević
• Esther Allen
• Selma Ancira – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016^[1]
• Alison Anderson^[2]
• Anne Milano Appel
• Sarah Ardizzone
• Sarah Austin (1793–1867)
• Oana Avasilichioaei^[3]
• Florence Ayscough (c.1878–1942)^[4]

B

• Constance Bache (1846–1903)
• Michelle Bailat-Jones^[5]
• Katharine F. Baker^[6]
• Anna Banti (1895–1985)
• Gili Bar-Hillel
• Polly Barton^[7]
• Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
• Anthea Bell (1936–2018)
• Clara Bell (1835–1927)
• Susan Bernofsky
• Magda Bogin
• Marilyn Booth
• Mary Louise Booth (1831–1889)
• Antonina W. Bouis
• Lisa Rose Bradford^[5]
• Barbara Bray (1924–2010)
• Erin Brightwell^[7]
• Dorothy Britton (1922–2015)
• Natascha Bruce^[8]
• Shelly Bryant^[9]
• Dorothy Bussy (1865–1960)

C

• Jen Calleja^[10]
• Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956)
• Hélène Cardona
• Nancy Naomi Carlson^[11]
• Juliet Winters Carpenter^[12]
• Lisa Carter^[13]
• Gigi Chang^[14]
• Allison M. Charette^{[5] [15]}
• Anna Gustafsson Chen
• Chi Pang-yuan
• Yukie Chiri (1903–1922)
• Rohini Chowdhury
• Laura Christenson^[16]
• Lyn Coffin
• Jessica Cohen
• Anne Coldefy-Faucard – winner, Read Russia Prize 2018
• Charlotte Collins
• Charlotte Coombe
• Nina Cornyetz^[7]
• Margaret Jull Costa
• Patricia Crampton (1925–2016)
• Ineke Crezee
• Victoria Cribb^[17]
• Jennifer Croft
• Susan Curtis^[18]

D

• Anne Dacier (1654–1720)
• Dai Congrong^[19]
• Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012)
• Lydia Davis
• Sarah Death^[20]
• Katy Derbyshire
• Katrina Dodson^[21]
• Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825)
• Nurduran Duman
• Marta Dziurosz^[22]

E

• Ellen Elias-Bursac^[23]
• Karen Emmerich^{[24] [25]}
• Maria Espinosa

F

• Marcia Falk
• Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019)
• Annie Finch
• Sheila Fischman
• Carolyn Forché
• Maureen Freely
• Shelley Frisch

G

• Amaia Gabantxo^[26]
• Linda Gaboriau
• Ann Gagliardi^[27]
• Nora Gal (1912–1991)
• Constance Garnett (1861–1946)
• Svetlana Geier
• Sylvie Gentil (1958–2017)
• Anna Gerasimova
• María José Giménez^[5]
• Barbara Godard (1942–2010)
• Leah Goldberg (1911–1970)
• Ann Goldstein
• Eleanor Goodman
• Luise Gottsched (1713–1762)
• Lucia Graves
• Edith Grossman
• Katia Grubisic
• Lady Charlotte Guest (1812–1895)

H

• Marilyn Hacker
• Sonya Haddad (1936–2004)
• Ivana Hadži-Popović
• Hala Halim
• Geraldine Harcourt (1952–2019)
• Choman Hardi
• Nicky Harman
• Michelle Hartman
• Rosalind Harvey^[28]
• Celia Hawkesworth
• Lisa Hayden – Read Russia Prize 2016
• Matilda Hays (1820–1897)
• Hélène Henry-Safier – winner, Read Russia Prize 2012
• Mary Herbert (1561–1621)
• Rachel Hildebrandt^[29]
• Cathy Hirano^[30]
• Mary Hobson
• Lakshmi Holmstrom (1935–2016)
• Anna Holmwood^[31]
• Amanda Hopkinson
• Penny Hueston^[32]
• Sophie Hughes^[5]
• Anna Hume (c.1600–c.1650)
• Adriana Hunter

I

• Jane Ingham (18971982)^[33]
• Anne Ishii^[34]

J

• Carol Brown Janeway (1944–2015)
• Elisabeth Jaquette
• Katrine Øgaard Jensen^{[35] [36] [37]}
• Chenxin Jiang^[38]
• Constance Jones (1848–1922)
• Kira Josefsson^[39]
• Margaret Jull Costa

K

• Hilary Kaplan^[40]
• Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp^[41]
• Sara Khalili
• Esther Kinsky
• Rachel Klein
• Patricia Klobusiczky^[42]
• Tina Kover

L

• Jhumpa Lahiri^[43]
• Maria Laina
• Rika Lesser
• Suzanne Jill Levine
• Tess Lewis^[44]
• Janet Limonard^[45]
• Sylvia Li-chun Lin
• Andrea Lingenfelter^[46]
• Antonia Lloyd-Jones^{[47] [48] [49]}
• Julia Lovell
• Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (1876–1963)
• Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley (1537–1587)
• Joyce Lussu (1912–1998)^[50]

M

• Christina MacSweeney^[51]
• Charlotte Mandell
• Emma Manley^[52]
• Canan Marasligil^{[53] [54]}
• Linda Marianello^[55]
• Farzana Marie^[56]
• Maria Mercè Marçal (1952–1998)
• Sophie Maríñez^[57]
• Ruth Martin^[58]
• Lyn Marven^[59]
• Eleanor Marx (1855–1898)
• Melanie Mauthner^[60]
• Bonnie McDougall^[61]
• Megan McDowell^[62]
• Nanette McGuinness
• Anne McLean
• Erica Mena^[63]
• Inga Michaeli^[64]
• Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore (1846–1890)
• Zdravka Mihaylova^[65]
• Diana Mitford (1910–2003)
• Mihaela Moscaliuc^[66]
• Erín Moure
• Luisetta Mudie^{[67] [68]}
• Ottilie Mulzet^[69]

N

• Irina Negrea
• Marilyn Nelson
• Mary Ann Newman^[70]
• Lucy North^[71]
• Sara Nović
• Tiina Nunnally

O

• Patricia Oliver^[72]
• Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871–1932)

P

• Helena Janina Pajzderska (1862–1927)
• Ève Paul-Margueritte (1885–1971)
• Lucie Paul-Margueritte (1886–1955)
• Charlotte Payne-Townshend (1857–1943)
• Fernanda Pivano (1917–2009)
• Agnieszka Pokojska^[73]
• Marie Ponsot (1921–2019)
• Allison Markin Powell^[74]
• Alta Price^[75]
• Minna Zallman Proctor^{[76] [77]}

Q

• Isabel Quigly

R

• Emma Ramadan^[78]
• Rita Rait-Kovaleva (1898–1988)
• Bhargavi Rao (1944–2008)
• Maruxa Relaño^[79]
• Famida Riaz^[80]
• Chloe Garcia Roberts^[81]
• Nancy N. Roberts
• Angela Rodel^[82]
• Lola Rogers^[83]
• Louise Rogers Lalaurie^[84]
• Margaret Roper (1505–1544)
• Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875–1960)

S

• Marta Sánchez-Nieves – winner, Read Russia Prize, 2018
• Elvira Sastre
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
• Claudia Scandura – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016
• Samantha Schnee^[85]
• Marian Schwartz – winner, Read Russia Prize 2014
• Ros Schwartz
• Gail Scott^[86]
• Jamie Lee Searle^[87]
• Kyoko Selden (1936–2013)^[88]
• Danica Seleskovitch (1921–2001)
• Nava Semel (1954–2017)
• Yvette Siegert^[89]
• Sirindhorn
• Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020)
• Rachael Small^[90]
• Nicky Smalley^[91]
• Deborah Smith
• Hilde Spiel (1911–1990)
• Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881)
• Anna Swanwick (1813–1899)
• Cole Swensen
• Fiona Sze-Lorrain

T

• Corine Tachtiris^[92]
• Niloufar Talebi^[93]
• Ginny Tapley Takemori^{[94] [95]}
• Martha Tennent^[79]
• Dorothea Tieck (1799–1841)
• Margaret Tyler (c.1540–c.1590)

U

• Avery Fischer Udagawa^[96]

V

• Leila Vennewitz (1912–2007)
• Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
• Laima Vince^[97]
• Saskia Vogel^[98]
• Larissa Volokhonsky

W

• • Wangui wa Goro Helen Wang
• Rachel Ward^[99]
• Alyson Waters^[100]
• Laura Watkinson
• Susan Wicks
• Celina Wieniewska^[101]
• Sian Williams^[102]
• Emily Wilson
  • Natasha Wimmer Sholeh Wolpé^[103]
• Frances Wood
• Barbara Wright (1915–2009)

Y

• Gladys Yang

Z

• Aniela Zagórska (1881–1943)
• Beryl de Zoete (1879–1962)

See also

• List of translators
• Women in Translation: An Interview with Margaret Carson & Alta L. Price^[104]

External links

• Some famous women translators of the past - by Marie Lebert

Notes and References

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73. Web site: Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators. www.bcwt.org. 2018-07-31.
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