List of translators into English

Translators of Homer[edit]

Samuel Butler
George Chapman (Iliad, 1611; Odyssey, 1614–15)
Albert Spaulding Cook
William Cowper (complete, 1791)
Robert Fagles
Robert Fitzgerald
Martin Hammond
Judith Kazantzis
Andrew Lang and Samuel Henry Butcher (complete, in prose, 1879)
Richmond Lattimore
T. E. Lawrence
Stanley Lombardo
George Herbert Palmer
Alexander Pope (Iliad, 1715–1720; Odyssey, 1725-6)
E. V. Rieu
W.H.D. Rouse
Emily Wilson (Odyssey, 2017)

Translators of Herodotus' The Histories[edit]

Translators of Sophocles[edit]

Translators of Thucydides[edit]

Translators of Plutarch[edit]

Arthur Hugh Clough – revised Dryden's version in the nineteenth century
John Dryden and others – Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Philemon Holland – Plutarch's Moralia (1603)
Sir Thomas North – translated Plutarch's Parallel Lives via the French of Jacques Amyot. This was the version Shakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays.
Rex Warner

Translators of Lucretius[edit]

NB: His only work was De rerum natura.

Thomas Creech (complete version, 1682)
John Dryden (selected passages)
William Ellery Leonard (complete version, 1916)
Lucy Hutchinson

Translators of Virgil[edit]

Frederick Ahl
Cecil Day-Lewis (complete works)
Patrick Dickinson
Gavin Douglas (the Aeneid into Scots)
John Dryden (complete works)
Robert Fagles
Robert Fitzgerald
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (two books of the Aeneid into blank verse)
Rolfe Humphries
W. F. Jackson Knight
Stanley Lombardo
Allen Mandelbaum
Clyde Pharr
C. H. Sisson

Translators of the Sangam literature[edit]

A. Dakshinamurthy
Kausalya Hart
George L. Hart
Hank Heifetz
P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri – translated the Tolkappiyam
Vaidehi Herbert

Translators of Ovid's Metamorphoses[edit]

Translators of Lucan[edit]

Robert Graves (prose version)
Christopher Marlowe – translated Book One of Lucan's Bellum Civile
Nicholas Rowe – produced a complete translation (1718)

Translators of Juvenal[edit]

John Dryden (Satires 1,3,6,10 and 16)
Peter Green (The 16 Satires)
Robert Lowell (Satire 10)

Translators of Martial[edit]

Peter Porter

Translators of the Tirukkural[edit]

V. V. S. Aiyar
K. M. Balasubramaniam
A. Chakravarti
S. N. Srirama Desikan – also a translator of the work into Sanskrit
S. M. Diaz
V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar
William Henry Drew
Francis Whyte Ellis
Charles E. Gover
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
Nathaniel Edward Kindersley
John Lazarus
S. M. Michael
George Uglow Pope
Herbert Arthur Popley
Edward Jewitt Robinson
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
P. S. Sundaram
G. Vanmikanathan
Emmons E. White

Translators of other famous Classical authors[edit]

Willis Barnstone
Robert Graves – translated Apuleius and Suetonius
Thomas Heath – translator of works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse
Philemon Holland – translations of Livy (1600), Pliny the Elder (1601), Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1613) and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632)
Stephen MacKenna – translator of Plotinus
Robert Potter – translator of Aeschylus and Euripides
Betty Radice
Ian Scott-Kilvert
Gerald Toomer – translator of the Almagest of Ptolemy
Phillip Vellacott
Rex Warner – translator of Thucydides
E. F. Watling

Translators of The Qur'an[edit]

Translators of Medieval and modern literature into English[edit]

Translators of Icelandic and other Scandinavian classics[edit]

Translators of Anglo-Saxon[edit]

Translators of The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights[edit]

Richard Francis Burton – also translated from other Oriental languages, including Sanskrit
Edward William Lane and Stanley Lane-Poole
Andrew Lang
Edward Powys Mathers
John Payne

Translators of Omar Khayyam[edit]

Translators of Dante's Divine Comedy[edit]

Laurence Binyon
John Ciardi
Robert M. Durling
Anthony M. Esolen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Allen Mandelbaum – also a translator of Latin
W. S. Merwin
Mark Musa
Robert Pinsky
Dorothy L. Sayers
C. H. Sisson

Translators of Montaigne's Essays[edit]

Translators of Rabelais[edit]

Translators of Cervantes' Don Quixote[edit]

J. M. Cohen – also a translator of French
Alexander J. Duffield
Edith Grossman (2003)
John D. Rutherford (also a translator of Galician)
Charles Jervas
Pierre Antoine Motteux
John Ormsby (later revised by Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas)
Samuel Putnam
Burton Raffel (1995) – also a translator of Old English, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese
Thomas Shelton
Tobias Smollett
Walter Starkie
Henry Edward Watts

Translators of Goethe[edit]

Walter W. Arndt – also a translator of Russian
W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer
Eric A. Blackall and Victor Lange
Louise Bogan
Thomas Carlyle
Michael Hamburger
Michael Hulse
Albert George Latham
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Louis MacNeice
Christopher Middleton
Burton Pike
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bayard Taylor

Translators of Dostoyevsky[edit]

Ignat Avsey – The Village of Stepanchikovo 1983, The Brothers Karamazov 1994, A Gentle Spirit 1996, Humiliated and Insulted 2008, The Idiot 2010
Henry and Olga Carlisle
Ann Dunnigan
Constance Garnett
David Magarshack
David McDuff
Alan Myers
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Michael Scammell
Frederick Whishaw

Translators of Tolstoy[edit]

Translators of Prus[edit]

Translators of Mann[edit]

Translators of Kafka[edit]

Translators of Musil[edit]

Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser
Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike

Translators of Proust[edit]

Scott Moncrieff, Stephen Hudson, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright
Joachim Neugroschel
Christopher Prendergast, with Lydia Davis, Mark Treharne, James Grieve, John Sturrock, Carol Clark, Peter Collier, and Ian Patterson

Translators of Flaubert[edit]

Translators of Borges[edit]

Other French to English translators[edit]

Gilbert Adair
Robert Baldick
David Bellos
Mary Ann Caws
Patricia Claxton
Peter Constantine
Charles Cotterell
Robert Fills
Sheila Fischman – translator of Quebec literature
Grace Frick – translator of Marguerite Yourcenar
Stuart Gilbert
Roland Glasser
Arthur Goldhammer
Daniel Hahn
Richard Howard
Tina Kover
Wyatt Mason
Sarah-Jane Murray – medieval French
Curtis Hidden Page
R. B. Russell – translator of Alain-Fournier
Francis Steegmuller
Sarah Elizabeth Utterson – translator of Fantasmagoriana
Louise Varèse
Barbara Wright
Frank Wynne – translator of Michel Houellebecq

Other German to English translators[edit]

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[edit]

William Arrowsmith
William Aylesbury – translator with Charles Cotterell of Enrico Caterino Davila's Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia
Keith Botsford
Peter Constantine – translator of Niccolò Machiavelli
Richard Dixon
Jonathan Galassi
Louis J. Gallagher
Raymond Rosenthal – translator of Levi
William Weaver
Shaun Whiteside – translator of Wu Ming
Beryl de Zoete – translator of Svevo
Ann Goldstein – translator of Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi

Other Spanish to English translators[edit]

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[edit]

Other Polish to English translators[edit]

Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney – produced a version of the Laments of Jan Kochanowski
John and Bogdana Carpenter – translated Zbigniew Herbert
Louis Iribarne – translated Stanisław Lem as well as Witkiewicz
Michael Kandel – translated novels by Stanisław Lem
Czesław Miłosz – translated Zbigniew Herbert
Jennifer Croft – translated Olga Tokarczuk
Jane Zielonko — translated The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz

Irish to English translators[edit]

Seamus Heaney – Sweeney Astray is a version of the medieval poem Buile Suibhne
Kenneth Jackson – translated A Celtic Miscellany
Thomas Kinsella – translated the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge
Frank O'Connor – translated Brian Merriman's Midnight Court

Nepali to English translators[edit]

Welsh to English translators[edit]

Charlotte Guest – produced the first retelling of the Mabinogion
Kenneth Jackson – translated A Celtic Miscellany
Gwyn Jones – translated the Mabinogion

Other Korean to English translators[edit]

Don Mee Choi
Bruce and Juchan Fulton

Other Japanese to English translators[edit]

Nancy Andrew – translator of Ryū Murakami's novel, Almost Transparent Blue
Donald Keene
Ian Hideo Levy – translator; one of the first Westerners to write a novel in Japanese
Don Philippi – translator of Japanese and Ainu; translated the Kojiki; also a noted technical translator
Alexander O. Smith – professional translator who worked on translations of different media, but is most famous for the English localizations of video games like Final Fantasy X, Ace Attorney, and Vagrant Story
Lucien Stryk and Takahashi Ikemoto
Royall Tyler – translator of The Tale of Genji as well as various Japanese folklore and Noh plays

Other Chinese to English translators[edit]

Jane English
Howard Goldblatt — translator of contemporary Chinese fiction
Nicky Harman
David Hawkes — translator of the Chinese classic Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
Arthur Waley
Helen Wang — translator of contemporary Chinese literature, especially fiction for children

Serbian to English translators[edit]

Dejan Stojanović – writer and translator of Circling: 1978–1987, The Sun Watches the Sun, The Sign and Its Children, The Creator, and The Shape

Other Yiddish to English translators[edit]

Curt Leviant – translator of Sholom Aleichem, Chaim Grade, and Isaac Bashevis Singer

Other Persian to English translators[edit]

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[edit]

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