William Weaver

William Weaver

male, 86 years old
Translator, Italian-English translator, Italian literature, William Fense Weaver, bard college
William Fense Weaver (born 1923) is considered the preeminent living English language translator of Italian literature. __TOC_
Michael Hamburger

Michael Hamburger

male, deceased (2007)
Collected Poems, 1941–1994, Critic, Academic of the University of Reading, German-English translator, memoirist, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford…Translator
Michael Hamburger OBE (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in pa...
Oliver Cowdery

Oliver Cowdery

male, deceased (1850)
Mormon, Oliver Hervy Pliny Cowdery, Assistant President of the Church, apostle, claim to have seen God, convert to Mormonism…Translator
Oliver Hervy Pliny Cowdery (3 October 1806 – 3 March 1850) was the primary participant with Joseph Smith, Jr. in the formative period of the La...
Peter Green

Peter Green

male, 85 years old
greek, Translator, Classical scholar, Historian of antiquity, University of Cambridge, College Year in Athens
Peter Green (born 1924) is a British classical scholar noted for his "Alexander to Actium", a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other...
Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann

male, 52 years old
University of Florida faculty, poet, Translator, translation, Griffin Poetry Prize, Ashes for Breakfast…German-English translator
Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German poet and award-winning translator.
Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger

male, 60 years old
from New York City, Order of the Aztec Eagle, Gregory Kolovakos Award, A Tale of Two Gardens, In the Light of India, Selected Nonfictions…Translator
Eliot Weinberger (born 6 February 1949) is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. Born in New York City where he still...
Donald Keene

Donald Keene

male, 87 years old
from New York City, Harvard University, Master's Degree, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, japanologist…Translator, Japanese-English translator
Donald Lawrence Keene (b. June 6 1922, New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese...
James Legge

James Legge

male, deceased (1897)
Inventor of writing systems, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, congregational church, Lexicographer, Scottish, Fellow of Colleges of the University of Oxford…Chinese-English translator, Translator
James Legge was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong...
Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

male, deceased (1950)
from the Province of Cuneo, from Turin, poet, Short story writer, From Piedmont, Italian resistance member…Translator
Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among...