This is a list of women translators of literature.

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Sara Aboobacker Sara Aboobacker (30 June 1936 – 10 January 2023) was an Indian Kannada writer of novels and short stories, and a translator. Early life and education Sara was born in Kasaragod, Kerala on 30 June 1936, to Pudiyapuri Ahmad and Zainabi Ahmad ...

– translator of novels into

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

Mana Aghaee Mana Aghaee (; born August 24, 1973 in Bushehr, Iran) is an Iranian poet, translator, podcast producer, and scholar of Iranian studies. Background Mana Aghaee was born 24 August 1973 into a middle-class family in Bushehr, Iran. In 1987 her f ...

(born 1973) *

Pratibha Agrawal Pratibha Agrawal (born 10 August 1930) is a theatre archivist, theatre actress, scriptwriter, director, writer and translator from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She is the founder of Natya Shodh Sansthan, a theatre archive and research institute in K ...

(born 1930) *

Catharina Ahlgren Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800) was a Swedish proto-feminist poet and publisher, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden. She was the publisher and chief editor of a number of different women's periodicals in Stoc ...

(1734–) *

Lidiia Alekseeva Lidiia Alekseevna Alekseeva, née Devel (1909–1989) was a Russian émigré poet and writer of short stories. She was among the group of Russians who were forced to emigrate from the country after the rise of Bolshevism. Her writing reflects this ...

(1909–1989) – translated the works of Croatian writer

Ivan Gundulić Dživo Franov Gundulić (; 8 January 1589 – 8 December 1638), better known today as Ivan Gundulić, was the most prominent Baroque literature, Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa (now in Croatia). He is regarded as the Croatian national ...

into Russian *

Francesca Alexander Francesca Alexander (born Esther Frances Alexander; February 27, 1837 – January 21, 1917) also known as Fanny Alexander, was an American expatriate illustrator, author, folklorist, and translator. Early life Esther Frances Alexander was born ...

(1837–1917) *

Acija Alfirević Acija Alfirević (born 12 August 1951) is a Croatian theatre scholar. He has more than 200 published works and has held professorships in multiple countries around the world. Her published works include a book about Harold Pinter and one on Aust ...

(born 1951) *

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 th ...

(born 1962) * Selma Ancira – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016 * Alison Anderson *

Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova Nadija Mykolajivna Hordijenko Andrianova ( ; also Andrianova Hordijenko; 15 December 1921 – 27 March 1998) was a Ukrainian writer and translator of the Esperanto language. She graduated in literature and journalism at Kyiv University ...

(1921–1998) * Anne Milano Appel *

Sarah Ardizzone Sarah Ardizzone Hon. FRSL (née Adams) is a literary translator, working from French to English. She has won the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation twice (in 2005 and 2009), and the Scott-Moncrieff Prize once in 2007. She was ...

* Wilhelmiina Arpiainen (1859–1922) * Sarah Austin (1793–1867) *

Oana Avasilichioaei Oana Avasilichioaei is a Canadian poet and translator. Her poetry work includes ''Expeditions of a Chimæra'' (2009), a collaboration with Erín Moure, and ''We Beasts'' (2012), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. As a translator, she is m ...

* 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 ...

(1846–1903) * Michelle Bailat-Jones * Katharine F. Baker * Albena Bakratcheva (born 1961) *

Shakuntala Baliarsingh Shakuntala Baliarsingh (born 25 February 1948) is an Indian Odia language writer and translator. Life Baliarsingh was born in 1948 in Ramapuram, Kottayam, India. She studied at Utkal University. Baliarsingh has published over 30 books, in ...

(born 1948) * Solvej Balle (born 1962) *

Anna Banti Anna Banti (born Lucia Lopresti; 27 June 1895 – 2 September 1985) was an Italian writer, art historian, critic, and translator. Life and works Banti was born in Florence. In her youth she spent time in Rome, attending the Sapienza Univers ...

(1895–1985) *

Gili Bar-Hillel Gili Bar-Hillel Semo (; born Gili Bar-Hillel on 19 October 1974) is an English-Hebrew translator from Israel, best known for translating the ''Harry Potter'' series into Hebrew. Biography Bar-Hillel is the daughter of Maya Bar-Hillel, a professor ...

(born 1974) * Polly Barton *

Zoë Beck Zoë Beck (born 12 March 1975 as Henrike Heiland in Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district) is a German writer, publisher, translator, dialogue book author and dubbing director. She has won multiple awards for her books and translations. Life ...

(born 1975) *

Aphra Behn Aphra Behn (; baptism, bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration (England), Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writ ...

(1640–1689) *

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 language, Danish. These include ''The Castle (novel), The Castle'' by Franz Kafka, ''Aus ...

(1936–2018) *

Clara Bell Clara Courtenay Bell ( 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 fo ...

(1835–1927) *

Susan Bernofsky Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) is an American translator of German-language literature and author. Life and work Susan Bernofsky is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world (in a "sec ...

(born 1966) *

Magda Bogin Magda Bogin (born 1950) is a New York City, New York-based writer and literary translator who has produced a body of work that straddles fiction, poetry, opera and non-fiction. Born in Manhattan, she has lived and worked extensively in Mexico, Fra ...

(born 1950) *

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 a ...

(born 1955) *

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) * Antonina W. Bouis * Lisa Rose Bradford *

Anneke Brassinga Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948, in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008, and has received numerous other prizes as well. Life and career Brassinga studied Tran ...

(born 1945) *

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 father had Belgian and Jewish origins. An identical twin (her sister Olive Classe was al ...

(1924–2010) *

Louise Briggs Amy Louise Briggs (c. 1870 – 8 January 1945) was an English teacher and Esperanto translator. Biography Briggs taught music and languages at the private institution Northcote Girls School in Leeds. Alongside teaching, she was a member of t ...

(1870–1945) * Erin Brightwell *

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) *

Natascha Bruce Natascha Bruce is a British writer and translator of Mandarin Chinese, 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 ...

* Shelly Bryant *

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. Her mother was suffragist J ...

(1865–1960)

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* Jen Calleja *

Zenobia Camprubí Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore. She was born in Malgrat de Mar (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a ...

(1887–1956) *

Hélène Cardona Hélène Cardona is a French 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 France, Spain, and the United States. Biogra ...

* Nancy Naomi Carlson * Juliet Winters Carpenter *

Margaret Carroux Margaret Carroux (31 May 1912 – 22 July 1991) was a German translator who translated from English and French into German. Born in Berlin into an international family, she studied economy, English and French before working as a commercial cler ...

(1912–1991) * Lisa Carter * Gigi Chang * Lucy Chao (1912–1998) * Allison M. Charette *

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 Ya ...

(born 1965) * Chi Pang-yuan (1924–2024) *

Yukie Chiri was an Ainu people, Ainu transcriber and translator of Yukar (Ainu epic tales). Life Yukie Chiri was born into an Ainu family in Noboribetsu, Hokkaidō during the Meiji (era), Meiji era. At the time, the Hokkaidō Development Commission, colon ...

(1903–1922) *

Rohini Chowdhury Rohini Chowdhury (born 1963) is a children's writer and literary translator. Her published writing for children is in both Hindi and English, and includes translations, novels, short stories, and non-fiction. Her children's books and short storie ...

(born 1963) * Laura Christenson * Lyn Coffin (born 1943) *

Jessica Cohen Jessica Cohen (; born 1973) is a British-Israeli-American literary translator. Her translation of David Grossman's 2014 novel ''A Horse Walks Into a Bar'' was awarded the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Biography Cohen was born in Colchester, ...

(born 1973) * Anne Coldefy-Faucard – winner, Read Russia Prize 2018 * Elizabeth Colenso * Charlotte Collins (1821–1904) *

Charlotte Coombe Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator working from French, Spanish and Catalan into English. She graduated with a degree in Modern Languages & European Studies from the University of Bath in 2007. She has translated over a dozen work ...

* Nina Cornyetz *

Margaret Jull Costa Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE, OIH (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, ith which ..., Eça de Queiroz">ith which .. ...

(born 1949) * Patricia Crampton (1925–2016) * Ineke Crezee * Victoria Cribb *

Jennifer Croft Jennifer Croft is an American writer and translator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel ''The Extinction of Irena Rey,'' a national bestseller and a ''Wall Street Journal'' best book of 2024. It has been transl ...

* Susan Curtis

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Anne Dacier Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (; 1651 – 17 August 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier (), was a French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''. She sought to cham ...

(1654–1720) * Dai Congrong *

Anila Dalal Anila Amrutlal Dalal is a Gujarati critic and translator. Life Dalal was born on 21 October 1933 in Ahmedabad to Amritlal Dalal. She completed her SSC in 1949, BA in English in 1954, MA in English in 1956, and later Ph.D. from Gujarat Univers ...

(born 1933) *

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar (‎; 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 lives of ordinary Iranians, ...

(1921–2012) *

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 very short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics ...

(born 1947) * Sarah Death * Katy Derbyshire * Katrina Dodson *

Jennifer Kewley Draskau Margaret Jennifer Kewley Draskau (died 21 October 2024) was a Manx historian, linguist, teacher, political candidate and prominent figure in Isle of Man culture. She published several books, with her most notable work being the 2008 grammar, sp ...

Adélaïde Dufrénoy Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy (née Billet) (1765, Nantes – 1825, Paris) was a French poet and woman of letters from Brittany. She is best known for her elegies and was an active part of the literary scene in Paris. Biography Madame Dufréno ...

(1765–1825) * Nurduran Duman (born 1974) *

Xenia Dyakonova Xenia Dyakonova (Russian: Кссения Дьяконова; St. Petersburg, 1985) is a Russian poet, literary translator, literary critic, and teacher of writing. As a teenager in 1999, she emigrated to Spain with her family and settled in Catalon ...

Janina Dziarnowska Janina Dziarnowska (, 13 November 1903 – 22 December 1992) was a Ukrainian born Polish writer and translator, publicist, and expert on Soviet literature. She wrote in the style of Socialist realism in Poland. She was a member of the Communist ...

* Marta Dziurosz

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* Ellen Elias-Bursac * Karen Emmerich * Maria Espinosa (born 1939)

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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 ...

* Jennifer Feeley *

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) *

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, ...

(born 1956) * Sheila Fischman (born 1937) *

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 Louise ...

(born 1950) *

Maureen Freely Maureen Deidre Freely (born July 1952) is an American novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme, University of Warwick, since 1996. Biography Born in Neptune, New Jersey, she is the daughter of author ...

(born 1952) *

Marie de France Marie de France (floruit, fl. 1160–1215) was a poet, likely born in France, who lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an unknown court, but she and her work were almost certainly known at the royal court of Kin ...

(fl. 1160–1215) *

Shelley Frisch Shelley Laura Frisch (born January 1952) is an American literary translator from German to English. She is best known for her translations of biographies, most notably of Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Ma ...

(born 1952)

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* Amaia Gabantxo * Linda Gaboriau * Ann Gagliardi *

Nora Gal Nora Gal (), full name Eleonora Yakovlevna Galperina (, April 27, 1912, in Odessa – July 23, 1991) was a Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist. Biography She was born on April 27, 1912, in Odessa. Her father was a me ...

(1912–1991) *

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) *

Ágnes Gergely Ágnes Gergely (born 5 October 1933) is a Hungarian poet, writer, educator, journalist and translator. Biography She was born Ágnes Guttmann in family of Fenákel Rózsika and György Guttmann in Endrőd, a village on the Great Hungarian Pla ...

(born 1933) * Svetlana Geier (1923–2010) * Sylvie Gentil (1958–2017) * Anna Gerasimova (born 1961) * María José Giménez *

Tatiana Gnedich Tatiana Grigorievna Gnedich (January 18, 1907 – November 7, 1976) was a Russian translator. Studies and Incarceration She hailed from a family of poets and scholars, among her ancestors was Nikolai Gnedich, a famous translator of Homer. She m ...

* Barbara Godard (1942–2010) *

Leah Goldberg Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg (; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, illustrater and painter, and comparative literary researcher. Her wri ...

(1911–1970) *

Lili Golestan Lili Golestan Taghavi Shirazi (; born 14 July 1944 in Tehran) is an Iranian translator, and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran. She is the daughter of the filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan and Fakhri Golestan ,t ...

(born 1944) * Ann Goldstein (born 1949) *

Eleanor Goodman Eleanor Goodman (born 1979; zh, c=顾爱玲, p=Gu Ailing) is an American poet, writer, and translator of Chinese. Her 2014 translation of the poems of Wang Xiaoni, ''Something Crosses My Mind'' was an international finalist for the Griffin Poet ...

(born 1979) * Luise Gottsched (1713–1762) * Lucia Graves (born 1943) *

Edith Grossman Edith Marion Grossman (née Dorph; March 22, 1936 – September 4, 2023) was an American literary translator. Known for her work translating Latin American literature, Latin American and Spanish literature to English, she translated the works o ...

(born 1936) *

Katia Grubisic Katia Grubisic (born April 25, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, editor and translator. Biography Katia Grubisic completed French and English literature degrees at the University of New Brunswick, and received her master's degree i ...

(born 1978) *

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 li ...

(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, ...

(born 1942) *

Sonya Haddad Sonya Haddad (November 9, 1936 – June 15, 2004) was a libretto translator and 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 graduated from th ...

(1936–2004) *

Ivana Hadži-Popović Ivana Hadži-Popović ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Ивана Хаџи-Поповић, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and translator. Biography Ivana Hadži-Popović studied at the Department of Romance Studies of Belgrade's Faculty of ...

* Hala Halim *

Geraldine Harcourt Geraldine Millais Harcourt (25 May 1952 – 21 June 2019) was a New Zealand translator of modern Japanese literature. Early life and education Harcourt was born in Auckland on 25 May 1952. She graduated from the University of Auckland, and firs ...

(1952–2019) *

Choman Hardi Choman Hardi (; born 29 January 1974) is a Kurdish poet and translator. Background Hardi was born in Sulaymaniyah on January 29th, 1974. The youngest among the 7 children of the famous Kurdish poet Ahmad Hardi. Hardi fled Iraq along with her fa ...

(born 1974) *

Nicky Harman Nicky Harman is a UK-based 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 time promoting ...

* Michelle Hartman * Rosalind Harvey *

Celia Hawkesworth Celia Hawkesworth (born 1942) is an author, lecturer, and translator of Serbo-Croatian. Biography Celia Hawkesworth graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1964 and was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in Belgrade for 10 mo ...

(born 1942) * Lisa Hayden – Read Russia Prize 2016 *

Matilda Hays Matilda Mary Hays (8 September 1820 – 3 July 1897) was a 19th-century English writer, journalist and part-time actress. With Eliza Ashurst, Hays translated several of George Sand's works into English. She co-founded the ''English Woman's Jou ...

(1820–1897) * Hélène Henry-Safier – winner, Read Russia Prize 2012 * Mary Herbert (1561–1621) * Rachel Hildebrandt * Cathy Hirano *

Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld Estella Dorothea Salomea Hijmans-Hertzveld (14 July 1837 – 4 November 1881) was a Dutch poet, translator, and activist. From a young age, her poems, mainly on Tanach, Biblical and historical themes, appeared regularly in respectable literary ...

(1837–1881) * Mary Hobson (1926–2020) * Lakshmi Holmstrom (1935–2016) * Anna Holmwood *

Amanda Hopkinson Amanda Hopkinson (born 1948) is a British scholar and literary translator. Biography She was born in London, England, to the British journalist and magazine editor Sir Tom Hopkinson and photographer Gerti Deutsch. She gained a BA from the Uni ...

(born 1948) * Caroline van der Hucht-Kerkhoven (1840–1915) * Penny Hueston *

Sophie Hughes Sophie Hughes (born 1986) is a British literary translator who works chiefly from Spanish to English. She is known for her translations of contemporary writers such as Laia Jufresa, Rodrigo Hasbún, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Fernanda Melchor. ...

(born 1986) * Anna Hume (c.1600–c.1650) *

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 ...

Sawad Hussain Sawad Hussain is a writer and translator of contemporary Arabic literature into English, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is known for her award-winning translations, as lecturer and speaker on the field of literary translation and for her ...

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Jane Ingham Rose Marie "Jane" Ingham ( ; 15 August 189710 September 1982) was an English Botany, botanist and scientific translator. She was appointed research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley in the Botany Department at the University of Leeds, and t ...

(18971982) * Nana Isaia (1934–2003) * Anne Ishii

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Carol Brown Janeway Carol Janet Brown Janeway (1 February 1944 – 3 August 2015) was a Scottish-American editor and literary translator into English. She is best known for her translation of Bernhard Schlink's '' The Reader''. Biography Carol Janet Brown was b ...

(1944–2015) * Elisabeth Jaquette * Katrine Øgaard Jensen * Chenxin Jiang *

Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir (22 October 1863 – 21 June 1924) was an Icelandic teacher and Temperance movement, temperance worker. She traveled and lectured in different countries on behalf of the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT) a ...

(1863–1924) *

Constance Jones Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (19 February 1848 – 9 April 1922), better known as Constance Jones or E. E. Constance Jones, was an English Philosophy, philosopher and educator. She worked in logic and ethics and served as mistress of Girton C ...

(1848–1922) * Kira Josefsson *

Manjari Joshi Manjari Joshi is a TV newsreader/anchor of the Indian public service broadcast television network ''Doordarshan''.She is the daughter of famous Hindi poet and journalist Raghuvir Sahay. Career Manjari got her schooling from Sardar Patel Vidya ...

(born 1960) *

Ann Hasseltine Judson Ann Hasseltine Judson (December 22, 1789 – October 24, 1826), nicknamed "Nancy", was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. Biography Ann Hasseltine attended the Bradford Academy and during a revival there read ''Strictures ...

(1789–1826) *

(born 1949) *

Kersti Juva Kersti Anna Linnea Juva (born 17 September 1948) is a Finns, Finnish translator, recognized in particular for her translation into Finnish of J. R. R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, for which she won the in 1976. H ...

(born 1948)

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* Hilary Kaplan *

Jaana Kapari-Jatta Jaana Marjatta Kapari-Jatta (born 19 May 1955, in Turku) is a Finns, Finnish translator of fiction, best known for her Finnish language, Finnish-language renderings of the ''Harry Potter'' novels and supplementary books by J. K. Rowling, including ...

(born 1955) * Doris Kareva (born 1958) * Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp *

Anbara Salam Khalidi Anbara Al-Salam Al-Khalidi (; 4 August 1897 – May 1986) was a Lebanese feminist, translator and author, who significantly contributed to the emancipation of Arab women. Early life and education Khalidi was born into an eminent Lebanese f ...

(1897–1986) * Sara Khalili *

Esther Kinsky Esther Kinsky (born 1956 in Engelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry. Life and works Esther Kinsky grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and read Slavonic studies at Bonn. ...

(born 1956) *

Nada Klaić Nada Klaić (21 July 1920 – 2 August 1988) was a Croatian historian. She was a 20th century Croatian medievalist. She, also, devoted a substantial part of the work to criticism of medieval sources. Academic career Nada Klaić was born in Zagre ...

(1920–1988) * Rachel Klein * Patricia Klobusiczky * Tina Kover (born 1975)

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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 a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in I ...

(born 1967) * Maria Laina (1947–2023) *

Rika Lesser Rika Lesser (born 1953 Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works. Life Lesser earned her bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1974. She studied at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden ...

(born 1953) *

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 an AB at Vassar College in 1967, an MA at ...

Tess Lewis Teresa D. Lewis is an American writer, essayist and literary translator from French and German. Her translation of Austrian poet and novelist Maja Haderlap's novel ''Angel of Oblivion'' was awarded the 2017 PEN Translation Prize, the Austrian Cultu ...

* Janet Limonard *

Sylvia Li-chun Lin Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese–English translator and a former associate professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Notre Dame. She has translated over a d ...

Anne Lill Anne Lill (née Laansoo; born 15 October 1946) is an Estonian classical philologist and translator. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tartu. Education Anne Laansoo was born on 15 October 1946. She graduated from University of Tart ...

(born 1946) * Andrea Lingenfelter *

Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector (, born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (; ) December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving them ...

(1920–1977) *

Antonia Lloyd-Jones Antonia Lloyd-Jones (born 1962) is a British translator of Polish literature based in London. She is best known as the long-time translator of Olga Tokarczuk's works in English, including '' Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'' which was s ...

(born 1962) *

Agnete Loth Agnete Loth (18 November 1921 – 2 June 1990) was an editor and translator of Old Norse-Icelandic texts. She is notable for editing late medieval romance sagas, which she published in five volumes intended "to provide a long-needed provisional ba ...

(1921–1990) *

Julia Lovell Julia Lovell (born 1975) is a British scholar, author, and translator whose non-fiction books focus on China. Lovell is professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her works on the Opium Wars (''The Opi ...

(born 1975) *

Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (' 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 Porte ...

(1876–1963) *

Mary Stanley Low Mary Stanley Low (14 May 1912 – 9 January 2007) was a British and Cuban political activist, Trotskyist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher. She is most known for the book ''Red Spanish Notebook: the first six months of revolution and t ...

(1912–2007) *

Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont Elizabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont, Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken (also known as ''Isabella of Lotharingen''; in Lorraine (duchy), Lorraine – 17 January 1456 in Saarbrücken) was a German regent and translator. She was the Countess of Nas ...

(c. 1395–1456) * Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen (1927–1973) *

Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley ( Jane Fitzalan; 1537 – 27 July 1578), sometimes called Joanna, was an English noblewoman. She was the first person to translate Euripides into English. Life and family Jane is the eldest child of three siblings, ...

(1537–1587) *

Joyce Lussu Gioconda Beatrice Salvadori Paleotti (8 May 1912 – 4 November 1998), better known by the nickname Joyce Salvadori or by her married name Joyce Lussu, was an Italian writer, translator and partisan. Biography She was born in Florence as Giocon ...

(1912–1998) * Mary Ann Lyth (1811–1890)

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* Christina MacSweeney *

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, Mar ...

(born 1968) * Emma Manley *

Eeva-Liisa Manner Eeva-Liisa Manner (5 December 1921 – 7 July 1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright and translator. Biography She was born in Helsinki, 5 December 1921, but spent her youth in Vyborg (Viipuri). Manner started as a poet in 1944 with ''Mustaa ja pu ...

(1921–7 July 1995) * Canan Marasligil *

Željka Markić Željka Markić (; born 11 November 1964) is a leader of Croatian right-wing movement U ime obitelji (''In the Name of Family''). She was born in Zagreb, then Yugoslavia, as the oldest of six children. She attended Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb ...

(born 1964) * Linda Marianello * Farzana Marie *

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 con ...

(1952–1998) * Sophie Maríñez * Ruth Martin * Lyn Marven *

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 Socialism, socialist activist who sometimes ...

(1855–1898) * Melanie Mauthner * Bonnie McDougall * Megan McDowell * Nanette McGuinness * Anne McLean (born 1962) * Erica Mena * Mandali Mendrilla (born 1976) * Inga Michaeli * Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore (1846–1890) * Zdravka Mihaylova *

Kateryna Mikhalitsyna Kateryna Mikhalitsyna (; born February 23, 1982) is a Ukrainian poet, children's writer, translator and editor. Early life and education Kateryna Mikhalitsyna was born on February 23, 1982, in Mlyniv. In 2003, she completed undergraduate st ...

(born 1982) *

Grażyna Miller Grażyna Miller (29 January 1957 – 17 August 2009)Żegnamy tłumaczkę "Tryptyku rzy ...

(1957–2009) *

Diana Mitford Diana, Lady Mosley (''née'' Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003), known as Diana Guinness between 1929 and 1936, was a British fascist, aristocrat, writer, and editor. She was one of the Mitford sisters and the wife of Oswald Mosley, le ...

(1910–2003) *

Midori Miura was a Japanese translator, best known for her translations of the works of modern Russian literature. She translated ''A Golden Cloudlet Was Sleeping'' by Anatoli Pristavkin (Japanese title ), ''The War Has Unfeminine Face'' and ''Zinc Boys'' ...

(1947–2012) *

Cläre Mjøen Cläre Grevérus Mjøen (, 5 June 1874 – 18 April 1963) was a German and Norwegian translator and women's rights activist. Early life Mjøen was born in Magdeburg, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia, in 1874. Her father Rudolph Berndt was ...

(1874–1963) * Mihaela Moscaliuc *

Jaroslava Moserová Jaroslava Moserová (17 January 1930 – 24 March 2006) was a Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor and translator. Biography Moserová was born into a Czech-Jewish family in Prague. She was originally a physician with a sp ...

Erín Moure Erín Moure (born 1955 in Calgary, Alberta) 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 or co-tran ...

(born 1955) * Luisetta Mudie *

Hana Catherine Mullens Hana Catherine Mullens (1826–1861) was a European Christian missionary, educator, translator and writer. She was a leader of zenana missions, setting up schools for girls and writing what is arguably the first novel in Bengali. She spent most ...

(1826–1861) * Ottilie Mulzet

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* Irina Negrea (born 1952) *

Marilyn Nelson Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, biographer, 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 ...

(born 1946) * Mary Ann Newman * Lucy North * Sara Nović (born 1987) *

Minni Nurme Minni Katharina Nurme (born 30 October 1917 in Aidu Parish, today Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County; died 22 November 1994 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer. Life and career Born Minni Neumann, Nurme graduated from the girls' school in Viljandi ...

(1917–1994) *

Tiina Nunnally Tiina Nunnally (born August 7, 1952) is an American author and translator of Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish literature. She also writes her own novels and young adult books. Early life and education Nunnally was born in Chicago, Illinois, and g ...

(born 1952)

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* Patricia Oliver * Gemma Rovira Ortega (born 1974) *

Yei Theodora Ozaki was a Japanese 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 London 1871 to Baron Saburō Ozaki, ...

(1871–1932)

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* Helena Janina Pajzderska (1862–1927) * Mrs H.B. Paull (1812-1888) *

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) *

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) *

Charlotte Payne-Townshend Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January 1857 – 12 September 1943) was an Irish political activist in Britain. She was a member of the Fabian Society and was dedicated to the struggle for women's rights. She married the playwright George ...

(1857–1943) * Eila Pennanen (1916–1994) * Hana Preinhaelterová (1938–2018) *

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 ...

(1917–2009) * Laura Poantă (born 1971) * Agnieszka Pokojska *

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) * Allison Markin Powell * Alta Price * Minna Zallman Proctor

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Isabel Quigly Elizabeth (Isabel) Madeleine Quigly (17 September 1926 – 14 September 2018) was a British writer, translator and film critic. Early life and education Quigly was born in Ontaneda, Spain, younger daughter of Richard Quigly, a railway engineer ...

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* Emma Ramadan * Rita Rait-Kovaleva (1898–1988) * Bhargavi Rao (1944–2008) *

Anna Řeháková Anna Řeháková (16 July 1850 – 27 May 1937) was a Czech teacher, translator, travel writer and novelist. Family Řeháková was born in 1850 in Žitnobranská Street, Prague and was one of seven siblings, including her sister Eliška Ře ...

(1850–1937) *

Nadine Ribault Nadine Nicole Claire Ribault (; 20 January 1964 – 15 January 2021) was a French novelist, short story writer and translator. Life and career Ribault was born in Paris on 20 January 1964. She graduated from La Sorbonne with a bachelor's degre ...

(1964–2021) * Maruxa Relaño * Famida Riaz * Chloe Garcia Roberts * Nancy N. Roberts (born 1957) * Angela Rodel *

Fátima Rodríguez Fátima Rodríguez ( Pontedeume, Galicia, 15 May 1961) is a Spanish Galician writer, and a translator in Galician and Spanish languages. She is also a professor at the University of Western Brittany in Brest, France. Biography Rodríguez studi ...

* Lola Rogers * Louise Rogers Lalaurie * Madeleine Rolland (1872–1960) *

Margaret Roper Margaret Roper (née More; 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 filia ...

(1505–1544) *

Olivia Rossetti Agresti Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875–1960) was a British activist, author, editor, and interpreter. A member of one of England's most prominent artistic and literary families, her unconventional political trajectory began with anarchism, continued ...

(1875–1960)

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Isabel Sabogal Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (born October 14, 1958 in Lima) is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer. Biography Her parents were José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (Peruvia ...

* Marta Sánchez-Nieves – winner, Read Russia Prize, 2018 * Elvira Sastre (born 1992) *

Dorothy L. Sayers Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerv ...

(1893–1957) * Claudia Scandura – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016 *

Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer (born 11 February 1865) was an English Esperanto speaker, solo singer, translator and languages teacher. Biography Schafer was born in London in 1865. She spoke Esperanto, the world's most widely spoken constr ...

(born 1865) – translated English hymns in

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

Daisy Schjelderup Daisy Schjelderup (16 June 1916 – 16 October 1991) was a Norwegian translator and writer. She grew up in Oslo. During the German occupation of Norway she was for a time incarcerated in Grini concentration camp, from September to October 1941. ...

(1916–1991) * Samantha Schnee *

Eleanor of Scotland Eleanor of Scotland (1433 – 20 November 1480) was an Archduchess of Austria by marriage to Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, a noted translator, and regent of Austria in 1455–58 and 1467. She was a daughter of James I of Scotland and Joan Beau ...

(1433–1480) * Marian Schwartz – winner, Read Russia Prize 2014 * Ros Schwartz * Gail Scott * Jamie Lee Searle * Kyoko Selden (1936–2013) * Danica Seleskovitch (1921–2001) * Nava Semel (1954–2017) * Ly Seppel (born 1943) *

Rachel Shapira Rachel Shapira (; born July 25, 1945) is an Israeli songwriter and poet. She rose to prominence after the Six-Day War with her anti-war song "''Mah Avarekh''" ("With What Shall I Bless?"), set to music by Yair Rosenblum, and went on to write some ...

Iryna Shuvalova Iryna Leonidivna Shuvalova (; born 1986) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and scholar. Early life and education Iryna Shuvalova was born in 1986 in Kyiv. She studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2014, she completed ...

(born 1986) * Yvette Siegert *

Sirindhorn Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Princess Royal () (born 2 April 1955) is a member of the Thai royal family. She is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn. Early life Birth S ...

(born 1955) *

Maj Sjöwall Maj Sjöwall (; 25 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her novels about the police detective Martin Beck. She wrote these novels in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö. ...

(1935–2020) * Maria Skibniewska (1904–1984) * Rachael Small * Nicky Smalley * Deborah Smith (born 1987) *

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) * Nadejda Stancioff * Marielle Sutherland, winner of the Stevns Translation Prize * Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881) *

Anna Swanwick Anna Swanwick (22 June 1813 – 2 November 1899) was an English author and feminist. Life Anna Swanwick was the youngest daughter of John Swanwick and his wife, Hannah Hilditch. She was born in Liverpool on 22 June 1813. The Swanwicks des ...

(1813–1899) *

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 translations ...

(born 1955) *

Fiona Sze-Lorrain Fiona Sze-Lorrain (born 1980) is a writer, poet, literary translator, editor, and musician. She writes in English and translates from Chinese and French. Her fiction, poetry, and translations have received recognition, shortlisted and longliste ...

(born 1980)

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* Corine Tachtiris *

Niloufar Talebi Niloufar Talebi () 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, Cal Performances, Atlanta Symp ...

* Ginny Tapley Takemori * Martha Tennent * Anne Thompson Melo, winner of the Stevns Translation Prize *

Dorothea Tieck Dorothea Tieck (March 1799 – 21 February 1841) was a German translator, known particularly for her translations of William Shakespeare. She was born in Berlin to Ludwig Tieck and Amalie Alberti. She collaborated with her father and his ...

(1799–1841) *

Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache (, c. 1840 – 24 December 1926) was a British writer, translator and poet. She was the daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus. Family She was born in ...

(1840–1926) * Tyyni Tuulio (1892–1991) * Margaret Tyler (c.1540–c.1590)

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Louise Varèse Louise Varèse (; ; 20 November 1890 – 1 July 1989), also credited as Louise Norton or Louise Norton-Varèse, was an American writer, editor, and translator of French literature who was involved with New York Dadaism. Early life and education ...

(1890–1989) *

Ngarmpun Vejjajiva Ngarmpun Vejjajiva (, ; born January 27, 1962, in London) is a Thai novelist and translator. She was the recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award for Thailand in 2006 for her first novel, ''The Happiness of Kati''. A wheelchair user, she has had cereb ...

(born 1962) *

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) *

Evangelina Vigil-Piñón Evangelina Vigil-Piñón is a Chicana poet, children's book author, director, translator, and television personality. Life Her mother's family emigrated to Texas in the early 1900s from Parras, Mexico. As a child, Vigil-Piñón lived with her ma ...

(born 1949) * Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca (born 1950) * Laima Vince *

Saskia Vogel Saskia Maria Desiree Vogel (born September 17, 1981) is an American-Swedish author, translator, and editor. Her debut novel, ''Permission'', explores the question “How do I want to be loved?” through the story of a grieving young woman’s rel ...

(born 1981) *

Larissa Volokhonsky Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are literary translators best known for their collaborative English translations of classic Russian literature. Individually, Pevear has also translated into English works from French, Italian, and Greek. The ...

Rita Vorperian Rita Vorperian (Armenian: Ռիթա Որբերեան) is a journalist, writer, translator, and researcher. She has served as teaching fellow and lecturer in Western Armenian at UCLA. She was the former executive director of the Armenian Relief S ...

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* Martina Wachendorff * Claire Wadie, winner of the Stevns Translation Prize *

Wangui wa Goro Wangui wa Goro (born 1961) is a Kenyan academic, social critic, researcher, translator and writer based in the UK. As a public intellectual she has an interest in the development of African languages and literatures, as well as being consistently ...

Helen Wang Helen Kay Wang (; ; born 1965) is an English sinologist and translator. She works as curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum in London. She has also published a number of literary translations from Chinese, including an award-winning t ...

* Rachel Ward * Alyson Waters *

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. Watkin ...

* Elizabeth Weber *

Halina Weinstein Halina Weinstein (4 January 1902–1942) was a Polish teacher, poet, linguist and Esperantist. She was murdered by Nazi occupying forces. Biography Weinstein was born in Warsaw in 1902.

Jenny Weleminsky Jenny Weleminsky (''née'' Elbogen; 12 June 1882 4 February 1957) Reference: HO 294/558/6122B. was a German-speaking Esperantist and translator who was born in Thalheim, Lower Austria, and brought up there and in Vienna. Some of her transl ...

(1882–1957) * Reza de Wet (1952–2012) *

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 ...

(born 1947) * Celina Wieniewska *

Marion Wiesel Marion Rose Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; January 27, 1931 – February 2, 2025) was an Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator. She was married to author and fellow Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel P ...

(1931–2025) * Sian Williams * Emily Wilson (born 1971) *

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. Biography Natasha Wimmer grew up in Iowa. She learned ...

(born 1973) *

Zora Wolfová Zora Wolfová (20 February 1928 — 29 November 2012) was a Czech translator (from English) and publishing editor. Her early translations are credited under her maiden surname, Bartošová. A native of the Czech capital, Prague, Wolfová translat ...

(1928–2012) * Sholeh Wolpé *

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 Londo ...

(born 1948) * Barbara Wright (1915–2009) *

Lia Wyler Lia Wyler (October 6, 1934 – December 11, 2018) was a Brazilian translator. Lia graduated with a degree in Literature at PUC-Rio and received her Masters in Communications at Eco-UFRJ, where her thesis was entitled "Translation in Brazil." She ...

(1934–2018)

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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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Safrira Zachai Safrira Zachai (; born 13 September 1932) is an Israeli actress, voice actress, dubbing director and translator. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zachai, Safrira 1932 births Living people People from Gedera Alumni of the Lon ...

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Aniela Zagórska Aniela Zagórska (26 December 1881, in Lublin – 30 November 1943, in 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 transla ...

(1881–1943) *

Beryl de Zoete Beryl Drusilla de Zoete, also known as Beryl de Sélincourt (July 1879 – 4 March 1962) was an English ballet dancer, orientalist, dance critic and dance researcher. She is also known as a translator of Italo Svevo and Alberto Moravia. Born ...

(1879–1962)

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