- Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible as the sole source of religious authority and the church as a priesthood of all believers. According to Luther, salvation was attainable only by faith in Jesus as the messiah, a faith unmediated by the church. These ideas helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization. - Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, … - Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose English stylist for the novels he composed in the United States. He is also noted for having made significant contributions to lepidoptery and creating a number of chess problems. Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, … - John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He founded the Lollard movement, a precursor movement to the Protestant Reformation (thus he became known as "The Morning Star of the Reformation"). He was one of the earliest antagonists of the papal encroachments on secular power. Wycliffe felt that all Christians should have access to the Bible in the vernacular. - Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. - Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian was an English novelist and translator, best known for his "Aubrey–Maturin series" of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish-Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. - Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles (born September 11, 1933) is an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer. He taught comparative literature and English at Yale University and for many years at Princeton University. - Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian: "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." - Li Bai
Li Bai or Li Po (701-762) was a Chinese poet who lived during the Tang Dynasty. Called the Poet Immortal, Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history. Approximately 1,100 of his poems remain today. The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis D'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his "Poésies de l'Époque des Thang". - Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. For many years she lived in Montreal and taught at McGill University. Reticent about her private life, the biography published in current editions of her books reads, simply, "Anne Carson lives in Canada." Though distinguished, Carson's academic training did not run a straight path. - Gregory Rabassa
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 Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 - Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. - Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant was a French occult author and magician. "Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew. - Leonard Orban
Leonard Orban (born June 28, 1961) is a Romanian independent technocrat who currently serves as the Commissioner for Multilingualism in the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU). He is responsible for the EU language policy and is the first Romanian Commissioner and the first member of the Commission whose portfolio is exclusively multilingualism. His term of office began on January 1, 2007 and will end on October 31, 2009. - Michel Serres
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 the École Normale Supérieure in 1952. He agregated in 1955 after having studied philosophy. He spent the next few years as a naval officer before finally receiving his doctorate in 1968 and began teaching in Paris. As a child, Serres witnessed firsthand the violence and devastation of war. - John Mills
John Mills was an encyclopedist on the Encyclopédie. He was originally a writer on agricultural matters from England. He proposed and worked on the Encyclopédie with Gottfried Sellius, a native of Gdańsk, who, after being a professor at Halle and Göttingen and residing in the Netherlands, had settled in Paris. Mills and Sellius originally proposed simply to translate articles from Chambers' Cyclopaedia into French. - Michael Hofmann
Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German poet and award-winning translator. - John Payne
John Payne was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is now best known for his translation of Boccaccio's "Decameron" and "The Arabian Nights". - John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. John Ciardi was primarily a poet, but he also translated Dante's "Divine Comedy", wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the "Saturday Review" as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, … - Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger OBE (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism. He himself commented unhappily on the habit that reviewers have of greeting publication of his own poetry with a ritualised "Michael Hamburger, … - Jane Kenyon
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 - April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. - Stanley Lombardo
Stanley F. Lombardo (b. 1943) is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", and the "Aeneid" (published by the Hackett Publishing Company and notable for their anachronistic cover artwork). The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, … - Uwe Muegge
Uwe Muegge (pronounced ), (b. December 5, 1960) is an innovator and educator in the field of translation. Muegge has developed several controlled languages, a number of tools and processes for automatic terminology extraction and dictionary creation, and is a pioneer in the areas of implementing automated tools for writing source documents in a controlled environment, using machine translation tools, and automatically checking target documents. - David McDuff
David McDuff, a Scottish publicist, was born in Sale, Cheshire, England in 1945. He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied German and Russian. After living for some time in the Soviet Union, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States, he eventually settled in the United Kingdom, where he worked for several years as a co-editor of the literary magazine "Stand". He then moved to London, where he began his career as a literary translator. - Tiina Nunnally
Tiina Nunnally (born 7 August 1952, Chicago, Illinois) is an American author and translator, and is affiliated with the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband Steven T. Murray and their two cats. She received her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhC from the University of Washington in 1979. Nunnally is an award-winning translator of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. - Rex Warner
Rex Warner (March 9 1905 - June 24 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for "The Aerodrome" (1941), an allegorical novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of his certainties about his loved ones and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home village and the pure, efficient, emotionally detached life of an airman. He was born Reginald Ernest Warner in Birmingham, … - Antoni Muntadas
Antoni Muntadas (born in 1942 in Barcelona) is a multidisciplinary, media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. Since 1971, he lives and works in New York. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,1977-1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with MIT Visual Arts Program. His work has been exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale, … - George Rawlinson
Canon George Rawlinson (23 November, 1812 - 7 October, 1902) was a 19th century English scholar and historian. He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson. Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford (from Trinity College) in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor. He was ordained in 1841, was Bampton lecturer in 1859, … - Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke née Mary Sidney, was one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works, translations and literary patronage. - Frank McGuinness
Frank McGuinness (born 29 July 1953 in County Donegal, Ireland) is an Irish playwright, translator and poet. - Lee Hall
Lee Hall (born 1966) is an English playwright and screenplay writer. Hall's most commercially successful work is "Billy Elliot", the story of a young boy in the north of England who, in the face of opposition from his family and community, aspires to be and ultimately becomes a ballet dancer. Initially a film (1999) directed by Stephen Daldry for which Hall wrote the screenplay, and for which he received an Oscar nomination, … - Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub was a Czech poet and immunologist. Miroslav Holub's almost always unrhymed poetry lends itself easily to translation. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and is especially popular in the English-speaking world. In addition to poetry, Holub wrote many short essays on various aspects of science, particularly biology and medicine (specifically immunology) and life. - D. M. Thomas
Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935, Redruth, Cornwall, UK) is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator. He graduated with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford in 1959 and has lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. A prolific writer, Thomas' career has been most successful when his circumstances have allowed him to concentrate on writing. - Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner, CH FRS (born January 13, 1927) is a South African biologist and 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. Brenner was born in a small town, Germiston (South Africa). His parents were Jewish immigrants. His father came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910, and his mother, from Latvia, in 1922. Educated at Germiston High School and the University of the Witwatersrand, he went on to complete a DPhil at Oxford University, at Exeter College. - Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish poet and haiku writer. He was born in Kilfinane, County Limerick in 1949. He currently resides in Dublin. Rosenstock's father was a doctor and writer from Schleswig-Holstein; his mother a nurse from County Galway. Gabriel was the third of six children and the first born in Ireland. He attended the National University of Ireland, Cork. Rosenstock worked for some time on the television series "Anois is Arís" on RTÉ, … - Barbara Wright
Barbara Wright is a prolific translator of recent French literature. Authors she has translated include Raymond Queneau, Alfred Jarry, Tristan Tzara, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget and Samuel Beckett. Her literary translation papers are held by the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington. - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was a famous Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. - Raphael Holinshed
Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580) was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as "Holinshed's Chronicles", was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays. Raphael Holinshed, or Raphael Hollingshead, probably belonged to a Cheshire family. Relatively little is known about him. He is thought to have come from Cheshire, but lived in London, where he worked as a translator for the printer Reginald Wolfe. - Sheila Fischman
Sheila Leah Fischman, C.M., M.A., D.U. (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she studied at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, where she earned a B.A. in chemistry and a M.A. in anthropology. Fischman has translated more than 100 Quebec novels. Since 1987 she has received numerous nominations for the Governor General's Award for Translation, … - Linda Gaboriau
Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian playwright and literary translator who has translated more than sixty plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences. A native of Boston, Linda Gaboriau moved to Montreal in 1963 to pursue education in French language and literature at McGill University. She worked as a freelance journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the "Montreal Gazette", …
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