I Ching

I Ching

male, deceased (713)
Tang Dynasty Buddhist, nalanda, tang dynasty, Translator, Buddhist, chinese
I Ching (monk) or Yi Jing (義淨, 三藏法師義淨 635-713) was a Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, originally named Zhang Wen Ming (張文明). The written records of his...
Sibel Edmonds

Sibel Edmonds

female, 40 years old
PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, free speech, George Mason University alumni, Whistleblowers, PEN/Newman's Own, Turkish-American…Translator
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a Turkish-American former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds was...
Ezra Loomis Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound

male (Hailey, Idaho, United States)
poet, imagism, Critic, American expatriate in Italy, expatriate, Hamilton College alumni…Translator
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote,...
Employment: …translator, Pound
Walter Scott

Walter Scott

male, deceased (1832)
Scottish historical novelist, the lady of the lake, waverley, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, english literature, Scottish…Translator
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe...
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
cultural critic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy…Translator, The Task of the Translator
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

male, deceased (1977)
Lepidopterist, novelist, translation, Synesthesia, Translator from English, English…Translator from Russian, Translator, English-Russian translator, Translator from French
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international...
John Donne

John Donne

male, deceased (1631)
convert to Anglicanism, from the City of London, Sonneteers, loyalist, Anglican priest, English…Translator
John Donne, 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable fo...
Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

male, 60 years old
novelist, writer, Translator, Short story writer, English-Japanese translator, Japanese
is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" as "easily accessible, yet...
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased (1791)
English pamphlet writer, Christianity in London, English letter writer, Renewers of the church, Christian Revivalist, Christianity in Oxford…German-English translator, Translator, Translator from German
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...