David Solway

David Solway

male, 68 years old
zionism, poet, Lying about the Wolf, The Lover's progress, educational theorist, Franklin's Passage…translation
David Solway (born 1941) is a Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic of Jewish descent. He is a member of the...

Alexander Forbes

male, deceased (1617)
Presbyterian, church of scotland, University of St Andrews, chancellor, 17th century, bishop…translation
Alexander Forbes (b. 1564; d. 1617) was a late 16th century and early 17th century Scottish churchman. Born around 1564, he was the son of Helen...
Hitomi Kanehara

Hitomi Kanehara

female, 26 years old
professor, writer, Translator, Japanese novelist, translation, Japanese
(born August 8,1983) is an award-winning Japanese novelist. A high school drop-out since the age of 15, Kanehara pursued her passion for writing...

Robert Dickson

male, deceased (2007)
Governor General's Award winning poet, Governor General's Award, Brain tumour death, brain cancer, translation, Canadian
Robert Dickson was a Canadian poet, translator and academic. Dickson formerly worked as a professor for le Département d'études françaises et de tra...
Alexander Gode

Alexander Gode

male, deceased (1970)
linguistics, American, linguist, Swiss, German, University of Paris…translation
Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von-Aesch or simply Alexander Gode (October 30, 1906 in Bremen - August 10, 1970 in Mount Kisco, New York) was a...
Alexander Fraser Tytler

Alexander Fraser Tytler

male, deceased (1813)
Tam o' Shanter, Essay on the Principles of Translation, translation, British, From dependence back into bondage, Scottish
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (October 15, 1747 - January 5, 1813) Scottish-born British lawyer and writer. Tytler wrote an important...

Alexander Gray

male, deceased (1968)
poet, writer, Economist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scottish, British…translation
Professor Sir Alexander Gray CBE, FRSE (6 January 1882-17 February 1968) was a Scottish civil servant, economist, academic, translator writer and...
David Staines

David Staines

male, 63 years old
Royal Society of Canada, Roman Catholic, Harvard University, From Ottawa, Canadian literature, University of Ottawa faculty…translation
David McKenzie Staines (born August 8, 1946) is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor. Staines was born in Toronto,...
Daniel Poliquin

Daniel Poliquin

male, 56 years old
novelist, Douglas Glover, Canadian writer in French, Franco-Ontarian, From Ottawa, translation
Daniel Poliquin (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of many Canadian writers into French,...
Sheldon Siegel

Sheldon Siegel

male, 51 years old
novelist, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP., legal drama, University of California, Berkeley, Bestseller, Sheppard Mullin…translation
Sheldon Siegel (born July 14, 1958) is an American novelist and author best known for his works of modern legal drama. Siegel graduated with a...