This is primarily a list of notable translators. Large sublists have been split off to separate articles.
By text List of Bible translators List of Qur'an translators List of Kural translators List of translators of William Shakespeare List of translations of Beowulf Translations of The Hobbit List of translations of The Lord of the Rings List of Harry Potter translations
By target language
Into Afrikaans
Kobus Geldenhuys – translator of children's literature including works by Cressida Cowell, J. K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo and David Walliams Uys Krige – translator of Latin American poetry by Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Nicolas Guillen, Cesar Vallejo, Jorge de Lima and Manuel Bandeira Elizabeth Weber – translator of children's literature including Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe among others Reza de Wet – translator of the play Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Into Albanian Mirela Kumbaro Vangjel Meksi – translated the first version of the Bible into Albanian Fan Noli – translator of world literature Robert Shvarc – translator of works by Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, Gabriel García Márquez and Erich Maria Remarque among others Petro Zheji – translator of works by Miguel Ángel Asturias, Denis Diderot, Ivan Goncharov and John Steinbeck among others
Into Arabic Ibn al-Muqaffa' – translator of Porphyry's Isagoge Simin Daneshvar – translator of works by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Anton Chekhov, Alan Paton, William Saroyan and George Bernard Shaw among others Rifa'a el-Tahtawi – translator from French Taha Hussein – translator of Sophocles and Jean Racine among others Hafs ibn Albar – translator of the Bible Hafez Ibrahim – translator of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Anbara Salam Khalidi – translator of the Odyssey by Homer and Aeneid by Virgil Muhsin al-Ramli – translator of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Abdulla Haba – leading translator of Russian literature into Arabic, winner of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding
Into Armenian Levon Ananyan – translator of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Vahagn Davtyan – translator of the works of Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Sándor Petőfi and Alexander Blok Vahan Malezian Hovhannes Masehian – translator of Shakespeare's of Hamlet Torkom Manoogian – translator of Shakespeare's sonnets Nahapet Rusinian – translator of Frédéric Bérat's French poem Ma Normandie Hamo Sahyan Vardges Sureniants – translator of Shakespeare's Richard III Alexander Tsaturian Rita Vorperian
Into Azerbaijani (Azeri) Hamlet Isaxanli (Isayev) – translator of poems from Russian, English and French Mirza Khazar – translator of the Bible
Into Bengali
Kabir Chowdhury Alokeranjan Dasgupta – translator of literature from German and French Zohurul Hoque – translator of the Qu'ran Hana Catherine Mullens – translator of Charlotte Maria Tucker's Daybreak in Britain Hana Preinhaelterová – translator from Czech Girish Chandra Sen – translator of the Qu'ran
Jyotirindranath Tagore
Into Bulgarian Albena Bakratcheva – translator of works by Patricia Highsmith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wole Soyinka and Henry David Thoreau Valeri Petrov – translator of Shakespeare's Comedies Nikolai B. Popov – translator of poetry by Paul Celan
Into Catalan Xenia Dyakonova – translator of works from Russian Mikel de Epalza – translator of the Qu'ran Quim Monzó – translator of works by Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Roald Dahl, Harvey Fierstein, Arthur Miller and Mary Shelley among others
Into Chichewa/Chinyanja Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga – translator of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Into Chinese Lucy Chao – translator of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Chen Liangting – translator of The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Lucifer Chu – translator of fantasy novels including the Dragonlance Chronicle by Margaret Weis and The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien Fu Lei – translator of works by Honoré de Balzac, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell and Voltaire Huang Ai – translator of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Jiang Feng – translator of poetry works by Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley; winner of the Lu Xun Literary Prize Ma Zhencheng – translator of works by Michel de Montaigne, Milan Kundera, André Gide, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Marguerite Duras Mei Yi – translator of How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky Ren Rongrong – translator of Italian fairy tales and children's literature Song Zhaolin – translator of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Sun Zhili – translator of works by Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway Wang Chong Wang Weike – translator of Dante's Divina Commedia (rendered indirectly from French) Wen Jieruo – translator from English and Japanese Xiang Xingyao – translator of the works of the Russian writer Alexander Herzen Yang Jingyuan – translator of works by Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë Yu Hsi – translator of the Kural Zi Zhongyun – translator of Civil Servant by Honoré de Balzac, Philosophy by Alain de Botton, Oh, the Pioneer and The Bohemia Girl by Willa Cather and The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Into Comanche
Tomassa
Into Croatian
Krešimir Ćosić – translator of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants Zlatko Crnković – translator of literature from German, English, Russian and French Antun Dalmatin – translator of Protestant liturgical books Stefan Geosits – translator of the Bible Nada Klaić – translator from Latin Željka Markić – translator of works by Roy Gutman and John Grisham Mandali Mendrilla – translator of the Hindu epics from Sanskrit
Into Czech Jaroslava Moserová – translator of over forty books by Dick Francis Anna Řeháková – translator of German women's novels Kamil V. Zvelebil – translator of the Kural and other ancient Tamil works Zora Wolfová – translator of works by Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nora Ephron, Martha Grimes, Doris Lessing, Alan Marshall, Vance Palmer, Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Ellis Peters, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Arthur Ransome and Margaret Yorke among others
Into Danish
Solvej Balle – translator of Rosmarie Waldrop's The Reproduction of Profiles Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen – translator of J. R. R. Tolkien's books Daisy Schjelderup – translator of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own, Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Roald Dahl's Kiss Kiss
Into Dutch
Kader Abdolah – translator of the Qu'ran Anneke Brassinga – translator of works by George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, W.H. Auden, Hermann Broch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marcel Proust and Jules Verne Daniël de Clercq – translator of Eduard Baltzer Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld – translator of Ludwig Philippson's oratio Mose auf Nebo, Grace Aguilar's Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings and a series of Norwegian articles by Henrik Wergeland Caroline van der Hucht-Kerkhoven – translator of Anna Kingsford and Eduard Baltzer Max Schuchart – translator of English novels by Daniel Defoe, Terry Goodkind, William Horwood and Salman Rushdie among others
Into English List of translators into English
Into Esperanto
Muztar Abbasi – translator of the Qu'ran Ujaku Akita – translator of Japanese works by Junko Sibata and Haĵime Ŝuzui Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova – translator of Ukrainian works by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Maksym Rylsky, Oles Honchar, Ivan Drach and Yevhen Hutsalo William Auld – translator of English works by Edward Fitzgerald, Christopher Fry, Harry Harrison, Jack London, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Oscar Wilde amongst others Gerrit Berveling – translator of the Book of Numbers Louise Briggs – translator of William Shakespeare's works and children's songs Hendrik Bulthuis – translator of Les Deux Billets by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë among others Rosa Junck – translator of La Floro De L' Pasinto (1906) and Kverko kaj Floro (1906) by Edmondo De Amicis Carlo Minnaja – translator of The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni and the poems of Cesare Pavese Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer – translator of English hymns Jenny Weleminsky – translator of works by Franz Grillparzer, Anastasius Grün and Alexander Roda Roda L. L. Zamenhof – creator of Esperanto and translator of the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament)
Into Estonian
Viiu Härm – translator of Latvian poetry Anton thor Helle – translator of the Bible Doris Kareva – translator of works by Anna Akhmatova, W. H. Auden, and Samuel Beckett, Joseph Brodsky, Emily Dickinson, Kahlil Gibran, Kabir and Shakespeare Anne Lill – translator of classic works by Apuleius, Aristophanes, Aristotle and Euripides and of philosophical works by Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche and Leonid Stolovich. Minni Nurme – translator from English and Finnish Ants Oras – translator of works by Alexander Pope, Alexander Pushkin, Shakespeare and Virgil Ly Seppel – translator of a selection of stories from One Thousand and One Nights and of song lyrics from Turkic languages, Russian and Finnish Enn Soosaar – translator of works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow Haljand Udam – translator of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat and works by Rudaki, Saadi and Ibn Tufail
Into Faroese
Heðin Brú – translator of works by Emily Brontë, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Astrid Lindgren among others Jákup Dahl – translator of the Bible Hanus Kamban – translator of ancient Greek writer Longos
Into Fijian Paul Geraghty – translator of the Kural Mary Ann Lyth – missionary, translator, teacher
Into Finnish Pentti Aalto – translator of the Kural Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila – translator of the Qu'ran Wilhelmiina Arpiainen Kersti Juva – translator of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien trilogy and The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Jaana Kapari-Jatta – translator of works by Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, J. K. Rowling and Oscar Wilde Eeva-Liisa Manner – translator of works by Lewis Carroll, Hermann Hesse, and Franz Kafka Sampsa Peltonen – translator from Arabic and French Eila Pennanen Tyyni Tuulio – translator of works by Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë and Fredrika Runeberg
Into French List of translators into French
Into Anglo-Norman French
Marie de France – translator of Aesop's Fables from Middle English
Into Galician Fátima Rodríguez
Into German Ilse Barea-Kulcsar – translator, journalist and communist activist Zoë Beck – translator of several works by Pippa Goldschmidt and others, as well as popular television series August Friedrich Caemmerer – translator of the Kural Margaret Carroux – translator of Leopold Trepper and J. R. R. Tolkien Svetlana Geier – translator of works by Tolstoy, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn from Russian Luise Gottsched – translator of The Spectator (9 volumes, 1739–1743), Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope and other English and French works Karl Graul – translator of the Kural Markus Hediger – translator of the novels of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz and the poems of Nicolas Bouvier Annemarie Horschitz-Horst – translator of Ernest Hemingway Henny Koch – first translator of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in 1890 Wolfgang Krege – translator of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and works by Amélie Nothomb Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont – medieval translator of four French romances (chansons de geste) by Odo Arpin of Bourges, Sibille, Loher & Maller and Hug Chapler