Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa

male, 87 years old
Gregory Rabassa (born 9 March 1922) is a renowned literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English who currently teaches at Queens College.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers

female, deceased (1957)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 - Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern...
Eliphas Levi

Eliphas Levi

male, deceased (1875)
Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant was a French occult author and magician. "Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, wa...
Leonard Orban

Leonard Orban

male, 48 years old
Leonard Orban (born June 28, 1961) is a Romanian independent technocrat who currently serves as the Commissioner for Multilingualism in the...
Michel Serres

Michel Serres

male, 79 years old
Michel Serres is a French philosopher and author with an unusual career. Born the son of a barge man, Serres entered the Ecole Navale in 1949 and...
John Mills

John Mills

male
John Mills was an encyclopedist on the Encyclopédie. He was originally a writer on agricultural matters from England. He proposed and worked on t...
Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann

male, 52 years old
Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German poet and award-winning translator.

John Payne

male, deceased (1916)
John Payne was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later...
John Ciardi

John Ciardi

male, deceased (1986)
John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. John Ciardi was primarily a poet, but he...
Michael Hamburger

Michael Hamburger

male, deceased (2007)
Michael Hamburger OBE (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in pa...