List of translators into English
Translators of classics and ancient philosophy
NB: His only work was De rerum natura .
Translators of Ancient Indian classics
Translators of Ancient Chinese classics
Translators of other classical authors
Translators of Hellenistic and Roman philosophers
Translators of Medieval and modern Philosophy
Translators of religious texts
Translators of The Bible
Translators of Taoist texts
Translators of Medieval literature into English
Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian sagas
Translators of Anglo-Saxon
Translators of modern literature into English
Other translators by language
Arabic to English translators
Bulgarian to English translators
Chinese to English translators
French to English translators
German to English translators
Constance Bache – translated operatic works by Hans von Bülow , Frédéric Chopin , Engelbert Humperdinck , Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner
Susan Bernofsky – translated Hermann Hesse , Franz Kafka , Robert Walser , Jenny Erpenbeck , Yoko Tawada and others
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 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
Italian to English translators
Irish to English translators
Japanese to English translators
Korean to English translators
Nepali to English translators
Polish to English translators
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
Russian to English translators
Serbian to English translators
Spanish to English translators
Esther Allen – translator of Antonio Di Benedetto , Felisberto Hernández , Jorge Luis Borges , Javier Marías 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
Harriet de Onís -- translator of Alejo Carpentier , Ricardo Güiraldes , Fernando Ortiz , Ernesto Sábato , Ricardo Palma and several other Latin American writers
Margaret Sayers Peden – translator of Horacio Quiroga , Pablo Neruda , Carlos Fuentes , Juan Rulfo and several other Latin American writers
Gregory Rabassa – translator of Gabriel García Márquez , Julio Cortázar and several others
Natasha Wimmer – translator of Roberto Bolaño 's 2666 and The Savage Detectives
Frank Wynne – translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez , Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Welsh to English translators
Yiddish to English translators
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
Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache – French, Russian
Wangui wa Goro – Gikuyu, French
Adolf Zytogorski – German, French, Russian
Other translators into English
Other translators
References