This is a list of women translators of literature.
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Mana Aghaee
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Catharina Ahlgren (1734–c.1800)
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Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)
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Acija Alfirević
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Esther Allen
Esther Allen (born June 29, 1962) is a writer, professor, and translator of French-language and Spanish-language literature into English. She is on the faculties of Baruch College (Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature) and the ...
* Selma Ancira – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016
* Alison Anderson
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Anne Milano Appel
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Sarah Ardizzone
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Sarah Austin (1793–1867)
* Oana Avasilichioaei
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Florence Ayscough (c.1878–1942)
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Constance Bache
Constance Bache (; 11 March 1846 – 28/30 June 1903) was an English composer, pianist, teacher, translator, and biographer.
Early life and education
Constance Bache was born at Fairview House, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, 11 March 1846. She was the da ...
(1846–1903)
* Michelle Bailat-Jones
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Anna Banti (1895–1985)
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Gili Bar-Hillel
* Polly Barton
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Anthea Bell
Anthea Bell (10 May 1936 – 18 October 2018) was an English translator of literary works, including children's literature, from French, German and Danish. These include '' The Castle'' by Franz Kafka, '' Austerlitz'' by W. G. Sebald, the ''In ...
(1936–2018)
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Clara Bell
Clara Bell, née Poynter (1835–1927), was an English translator fluent in French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish,''The Illustrated American'': 22 November 1890, p.500''The Author: A Monthly Magazine for Literary ...
(1835–1927)
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Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
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Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) is an American translator of German-language literature and author. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world, translating many of his books and writi ...
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Magda Bogin
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Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Louise Booth (born 24 February 1955) is an author, scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Since 2015, she has been the Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford and ...
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Mary Louise Booth
Mary Louise Booth (April 19, 1831March 5, 1889) was an American editor, translator, and writer. She was the first editor-in-chief of the women's fashion magazine, ''Harper's Bazaar''.
At the age of eighteen, Booth left the family home for New Yo ...
(1831–1889)
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Antonina W. Bouis
* Lisa Rose Bradford
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Barbara Bray
Barbara Bray (née Jacobs; 24 November 1924 – 25 February 2010) was an English translator and critic.
Early life
Bray was born in Maida Vale, London; her parents had Belgian and Jewish origins. An identical twin (her sister Olive Classe was al ...
(1924–2010)
* Erin Brightwell
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Dorothy Britton
Dorothy Guyver Britton, Lady Bouchier MBE (14 February 1922 – 25 February 2015) was born in Yokohama and went to the Yokohama International School, moved to the United States at the age of 11, and was educated in the United States and England, ...
(1922–2015)
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Natascha Bruce
Natascha Bruce is a British writer and translator of Chinese fiction and nonfiction. She currently resides in Amsterdam.
Biography
Bruce graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Chinese, focusing on cont ...
* Shelly Bryant
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Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy Bussy ( Strachey; 24 July 1865 – 1 May 1960) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group.
Family background and childhood
Dorothy Bussy was a member of the Strachey family, one of ten children of Jane St ...
(1865–1960)
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* Jen Calleja
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Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956)
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Hélène Cardona Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actor. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Spanish poet Jose Manuel Cardona, from Ibiza, and a Greek mother. She is a citizen of the United States, France and Spain.
She studied in th ...
* Nancy Naomi Carlson
* Juliet Winters Carpenter
* Lisa Carter
* Gigi Chang
* Allison M. Charette
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Anna Gustafsson Chen
Anna Gustafsson Chen (; born 18 January 1965) is a Swedish literary translator and sinologist. She is notable for translating the work of Mo Yan (the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature winner) into Swedish. Her translations are directly tied to Mo Yan ...
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Chi Pang-yuan
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Yukie Chiri
was a Japanese transcriber and translator of Yukar (Ainu epic tales).
Life
Yukie Chiri was born into an Ainu people, Ainu family in Noboribetsu, Hokkaidō during the Meiji (era), Meiji era. At the time, increasing immigration of Japanese peopl ...
(1903–1922)
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Rohini Chowdhury
* Laura Christenson
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Heather Cleary
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Lyn Coffin
Lyn Coffin (born November 12, 1943) is an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.
Biography
She has been an Associate Editor of the ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' and previously taught English at the University of Washington, Renton High S ...
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Jessica Cohen
* Anne Coldefy-Faucard – winner, Read Russia Prize 2018
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Charlotte Collins
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Charlotte Coombe
* Nina Cornyetz
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Margaret Jull Costa
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Patricia Crampton (1925–2016)
* Victoria Cribb
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Jennifer Croft
* Susan Curtis
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Anne Dacier
Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1647 – 17 August 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholarly method, scholar, translation, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odys ...
(1654–1720)
* Dai Congrong
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Simin Daneshvar
Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور) (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator.
She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the ...
(1921–2012)
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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...
* Sarah Death
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Katy Derbyshire
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Katrina Dodson
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Adélaïde Dufrénoy
Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy (née Billet) (1765–1825) was a French poet and painter from Brittany.
Biography
The daughter of Jacques Billet, a jeweller for the Crown of Poland, she had a lavish education and learnt Latin to a proficient eno ...
(1765–1825)
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Nurduran Duman
* Marta Dziurosz
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* Ellen Elias-Bursac
* Karen Emmerich
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Maria Espinosa
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Marcia Falk
Marcia Falk is a poet, liturgist, painter, and translator who has written several books of poetry and prayer.
Early years
She was born in New York City and grew up in a Conservative Jewish home in New Hyde Park, Long Island. Her mother Frieda G ...
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Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
Earl ...
(1930–2019)
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Annie Finch
Annie Finch (born October 31, 1956) is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, playwright, and performer and the editor of the first major anthology of literature about abortion. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, ...
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Sheila Fischman
Sheila Leah Fischman (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature from French to English.
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was brought up in Ontario. She hold ...
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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché (born April 28, 1950) is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate. She has received many awards for her literary work.
Biography
Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Michael Joseph and Louis ...
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Maureen Freely
Maureen Deidre Freely FRSL (born July 1952) is an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme since 1996.
Biography
Born in Neptune, New Jersey, she is the daughter of author John ...
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Shelley Frisch
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* Amaia Gabantxo
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Linda Gaboriau
* Ann Gagliardi
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Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the ...
(1861–1946)
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Sylvie Gentil (1958–2017)
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Anna Gerasimova
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Svetlana Geier
* María José Giménez
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Barbara Godard (1942–2010)
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Leah Goldberg
Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg ( he, לאה גולדברג; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.
Her writ ...
(1911–1970)
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Ann Goldstein
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Eleanor Goodman
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Luise Gottsched (1713–1762)
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Lucia Graves
Lucia Graves (born 21 July 1943) is a writer and translator. Born in Devon, England, she is the daughter of writer Robert Graves, and his second wife, Beryl Pritchard (1915–2003).
Biography
Lucia is a translator working in English and Spanish/ ...
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Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman (born March 22, 1936) is an American Spanish-to-English literary translator. One of the most important contemporary translators of Latin American and Spanish literature, she has translated the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas ...
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Katia Grubisic
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Lady Charlotte Guest
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the '' Mabinogion'', the earliest prose l ...
(1812–1895)
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Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
Her books of poetry include ''Presentation Piece'' (1974), which won the National Book Award, ...
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Sonya Haddad
Sonya Haddad (November 9, 1936 – June 15, 2004) was a libretto translator and surtitles, surtitler for the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Life and career
Haddad was born in Canton, Ohio, on November 9, 1936, and grew up in Akron. She graduat ...
(1936–2004)
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Ivana Hadži-Popović
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Hala Halim
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Geraldine Harcourt (1952-2019)
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Choman Hardi
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Nicky Harman
Nicky Harman is a UK-based prize-winning literary translator, working from Chinese to English and focussing on contemporary fiction, literary non-fiction, and occasionally poetry, by a wide variety of authors. When not translating, she spends tim ...
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Michelle Hartman
* Rosalind Harvey
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Celia Hawkesworth
* Lisa Hayden - Read Russia Prize 2016
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Matilda Hays
Matilda Mary Hays (8 September 1820 – 3 July 1897) was a 19th-century English writer, journalist and part-time actress. With Elizabeth Ashurst, Hays translated several of George Sand's works into English. She co-founded the '' English Woman's ...
(1820–1897)
* Hélène Henry-Safier – winner, Read Russia Prize 2012
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Mary Herbert (1561–1621)
* Rachel Hildebrandt
* Cathy Hirano
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Mary Hobson
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Lakshmi Holmstrom (1935–2016)
* Anna Holmwood
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Amanda Hopkinson
* Penny Hueston
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Sophie Hughes
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Anna Hume
Anna Hume (''floruit'' 1644) was a Scottish translator, poet and writer.
Hume was the daughter of Jacobean poet and historian David Hume of Godscroft. She superintended the posthumous publication of her father's ''History of the House and Race ...
(c.1600–c.1650)
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Adriana Hunter
Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French literature. She is known for translating over 60 French novels, such as '' Fear and Trembling'' by Amélie Nothomb or '' The Girl Who Played Go'' by Shan Sa.
She has been short-listed for the Ind ...
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Jane Ingham
Rose Marie "Jane" Ingham ( ; 15 August 189710 September 1982) was an English botanist and scientific translator. She was appointed research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley in the Botany Department at the University of Leeds, and together, ...
(18971982)
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Anne Ishii
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Carol Brown Janeway (1944– 2015)
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Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award and TA First Translation Prize, and supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, ...
* Katrine Øgaard Jensen
* Chenxin Jiang
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Constance Jones (1848–1922)
* Kira Josefsson
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Margaret Jull Costa
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Hilary Kaplan
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* Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
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Sara Khalili
Sara Khalili ( fa, سارا خلیلی) is a journalist, editor, and literary translator based in New York.
Publications
Khalili's translations of contemporary Iranian literature include:
* Siavash Kasrai, ''As Red as Fire, Tasting of Smoke, Col ...
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Esther Kinsky
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Rachel Klein
* Patricia Klobusiczky
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Tina Kover
Tina Kover (born March 20, 1975 in Denver, Colorado, USA) is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Repu ...
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italia ...
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Maria Laina
Maria Laina ( el, Μαρία Λαϊνά; 1947 – 27 December 2023) was a Greek poet. She studied Law at the University of Athens, but she did not practice it, and worked instead as a translator, critic, screenwriter, copy editor, professor of G ...
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Rika Lesser
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Suzanne Jill Levine
Suzanne Jill Levine is an American writer, poet, literary translator and scholar.
Levine was born in New York City where she studied piano at Juilliard and went to Music & Art High School.
She earned a BA at Vassar College in 1967, an MA at ...
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Tess Lewis
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Sylvia Li-chun Lin
* Janet Limonard
* Andrea Lingenfelter
* Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Julia Lovell
Julia Lovell (born 1975) is a British scholar and prize-winning author and translator focusing on China.
Life and career
Lovell is professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, where her research has bee ...
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Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (June 15, 1876 – April 26, 1963) was an American translator and writer, best known for translating almost all of the works of Thomas Mann for their first publication in English.
Personal life
Helen Tracy Porter was the ...
(1876–1963)
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Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley (1537–1587)
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Joyce Lussu
Joyce Salvadori Paleotti (8 May 1912 – 4 November 1998), better known by her married name Joyce Lussu, was an Italian writer, translator and partisan.
Biography
She was born in Florence as Gioconda Beatrice Salvadori Paleotti to parents from ...
(1912–1998)
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* Christina MacSweeney
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Charlotte Mandell
Charlotte Mandell (born 1968) is an American literary translator. She has translated many works of poetry, fiction and philosophy from French to English, including work by Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Verne, Guy de Maupassant, M ...
* Emma Manley
* Canan Marasligil
* Linda Marianello
* Farzana Marie
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Maria Mercè Marçal
Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra (13 November 1952 – 5 July 1998) was a Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain.
Biography
Marçal was born in Barcelona but spent her childhood in Ivars d'Urgell (Pla d'Urgell), which she consi ...
(1952–1998)
* Sophie Maríñez
* Ruth Martin
* Lyn Marven
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Eleanor Marx
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist who sometimes worked as a ...
(1855–1898)
* Melanie Mauthner
* Bonnie McDougall
* Megan McDowell
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Nanette McGuinness
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Anne McLean
* Erica Mena
* Inga Michaeli
* Zdravka Mihaylova
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Diana Mitford
Diana, Lady Mosley (''née'' Freeman-Mitford; 17 June 191011 August 2003) was one of the Mitford sisters. In 1929 she married Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, with whom she was part of the Bright Young Things social group o ...
(1910–2003)
* Mihaela Moscaliuc
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Erín Moure
Erín Moure (born 1955 in Calgary, Alberta) Erín Moure is a Canadian poet and translator with 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs; she has translated ...
* Luisetta Mudie
* Ottilie Mulzet
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Robin Myers
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Irina Negrea
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Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former poet laureate of Connecticut, She is a winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetr ...
* Mary Ann Newman
* Lucy North
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Sara Nović
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Tiina Nunnally
Tiina Nunnally (born August 7, 1952) is an American author and translator.
Early life and education
Nunnally was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She was an AFS exchange student to ...
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* Patricia Oliver
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Yei Theodora Ozaki
O'Yei or ''Theodora'' was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death.
Biography
Ozaki was born in Lon ...
(1871–1932)
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Ève Paul-Margueritte
Ève Paul-Margueritte (5 February 1885 – 16 July 1971) was a French-language writer, the author of many sentimental novels. After she was widowed and her sister, Lucie Paul-Margueritte, was divorced, they lived and worked together, co-authoring ...
(1885-1971)
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Lucie Paul-Margueritte
Lucie Paul-Margueritte (9 January 1886 - 10 May 1955) was a French-language writer and translator. She was the recipient of the Legion of Honour as well as multiple awards from the Académie Française. She lived and worked with her widowed sister ...
(1886-1955)
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend (1857–1943)
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Fernanda Pivano
Fernanda Pivano (18 July 1917 – 18 August 2009) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.
Early life
Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D ...
(1917–2009)
* Agnieszka Pokojska
* Allison Markin Powell
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Marie Ponsot
Marie Ponsot (née Birmingham; April 6, 1921 – July 5, 2019) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. Her awards and honors included the National Book Critics Circle Award, Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, the ...
(1921–2019)
* Alta Price
* Minna Zallman Proctor
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Isabel Quigly
Isabel Madeleine Quigly FRSL (17 September 1926 – 14 September 2018) was a writer, translator and film critic.
Biography
She was born in Ontaneda, Spain, and educated at Godolphin School, Salisbury and Newnham College, Cambridge. In her ea ...
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* Emma Ramadan
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Bhargavi Rao (1944–2008)
* Maruxa Relaño
* Famida Riaz
* Chloe Garcia Roberts
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Nancy N. Roberts
* Angela Rodel
* Lola Rogers
* Louise Rogers Lalaurie
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Margaret Roper
Margaret Roper (1505–1544) was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. She is celebrated for her filial piety and sch ...
(1505–1544)
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Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875–1960)
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* Marta Sánchez-Nieves – winner, Read Russia Prize, 2018
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Elvira Sastre
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages.
She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between th ...
(1893–1957)
* Claudia Scandura – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016
* Samantha Schnee
* Marian Schwartz – winner,
Read Russia Prize 2014
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Ros Schwartz Ros Schwartz is an English literary translator, who translates Francophone literature into English. In 2009 she was awarded the Chevalier d’Honneur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to French literature.
Career
Alongside ...
* Gail Scott
* Jamie Lee Searle
* Kyoko Selden (1936-2013)
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Danica Seleskovitch (1921–2001)
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Nava Semel (1954–2017)
* Yvette Siegert
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Sirindhorn
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Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall (; 25 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her books about police detective Martin Beck. She wrote the books in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö.
Biograph ...
(1935–2020)
* Rachael Small
* Nicky Smalley
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Deborah Smith
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Hilde Spiel
Hilde Spiel (19 October 1911 – 30 November 1990) (pseudonyms: Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir) was an Austrian writer and journalist who received numerous awards and honours.
Biography Youth in Vienna
Hilde Spiel was born in Vienna in October 19 ...
(1911–1990)
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Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881)
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Anna Swanwick (1813–1899)
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Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen (born 1955, in Kentfield, California) is an American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor. Swensen was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and is the author of more than ten poetry collections and as many translation ...
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Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain (born 1980) is a French writer, musician, poet, literary translator, and editor.
Early life and education
Born in Singapore, Sze-Lorrain grew up trilingual and has lived mostly in Paris and New York City. She spent her childh ...
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* Corine Tachtiris
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Niloufar Talebi
Niloufar Talebi ( fa, نیلوفر طالبی) is an author, literary translator, librettist, multidisciplinary artist, and producer. She was born in London to Iranian parents. Her work has been presented by, and/or performed at Carnegie Hall, C ...
* Ginny Tapley Takemori
* Martha Tennent
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Dorothea Tieck (1799–1841)
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Margaret Tyler
Margaret Tyler (c. 1540 - c. 1590) was the first Englishwoman to translate a Spanish romance and the first woman to publish a romance in England. She also published a defense of the seriousness and importance of women’s writing. She proposed th ...
(c.1540–c.1590)
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* Avery Fischer Udagawa
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Leila Vennewitz
Leila Vennewitz (19128 August 2007) was a Canadian-English translator of German literature. She was born Leila Croot in Hampshire, England and grew up in Portsmouth. Her brother was the surgeon Sir John Croot.
She studied at the Sorbonne in Pari ...
(1912–2007)
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Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
* Laima Vince
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Saskia Vogel
Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel (born September 17, 1981) is an American author and translator. ''Permission'', her debut novel, was published in English, Spanish, Italian, and Swedish in 2019 and has been optioned for television. She has translated ...
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Wangui wa Goro
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Helen Wang
* Rachel Ward
* Alyson Waters
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Laura Watkinson
Laura Watkinson is a British literary translator. She studied languages at St Anne's College, Oxford, and has obtained some postgraduate qualifications since. She has taught at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and University of Milan.
Watki ...
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Charlotte Whittle
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Susan Wicks
Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet and novelist.
She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent.
She teaches at Goldsm ...
* Sian Williams
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Emily Wilson
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Natasha Wimmer
Natasha Wimmer (born 1973) is an American translator best known for her translations of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's ''2666'' and ''The Savage Detectives'' from Spanish into English.
Wimmer learned Spanish in Spain, where she spent four yea ...
* Celina Wieniewska
* Sholeh Wolpé
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Frances Wood
Frances Wood (; born 1948) is an English librarian, sinologue and historian known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China.
Biography
Wood was born in London ...
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Barbara Wright (1915–2009)
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Gladys Yang
Gladys Yang (; 19 January 1919 – 18 November 1999) was a British translator of Chinese literature and the wife of another noted literary translator, Yang Xianyi.
Biography
She was born Gladys Margaret Tayler at the Peking Union Medical Col ...
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Aniela Zagórska
Aniela Zagórska (26 December 1881, Lublin – 30 November 1943, Warsaw) was a Polish translator who rendered into Polish nearly all the works of Joseph Conrad.
Life
Aniela Zagórska was a niece of Joseph Conrad. In 1923–39 she translated ...
(1881–1943)
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Beryl de Zoete (1879–1962)
See also
*
List of translators
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
*Harry Potter in translation
By target languag ...
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Indian women translators
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** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
* Women in Translation: An Interview with Margaret Carson & Alta L. Price
References
External links
Some famous women translators of the past - by Marie Lebert
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