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Ralph Frederick Manheim (April 4, 1907 – September 26, 1992) was a Jewish-American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He was one of the most acclaimed translators of the 20th century, [1] and likened translation to acting, the role being "to impersonate his author". [2]
Edith Marion Grossman (née Dorph; March 22, 1936 – September 4, 2023) was an American literary translator.Known for her work translating Latin American and Spanish literature to English, she translated the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Julián Ríos, Álvaro Mutis, and Miguel de ...
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[7]: xxx–xxxiii Shelton's translation of the First Part of the novel was published while Cervantes was still alive. On the appearance of the Brussels imprint of the Second Part of Don Quixote in 1616, the year of Cervantes's death, Shelton translated that also into English, completing his task in 1620, and printing at the same time a revised ...
Nadine Ribault – translator of The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame; Madeleine Rolland, translator of Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Boris Vian – translator of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler as Le grand sommeil (1948), The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler as La dame du lac (1948), The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt, as Le Monde ...
Don Philippi – translator of Japanese and Ainu; translated the Kojiki; also a noted technical translator; Alexander O. Smith – professional translator who worked on translations of different media, but is most famous for the English localizations of video games like Final Fantasy X, Ace Attorney, and Vagrant Story; Lucien Stryk and ...
Tymoczko is of Slovak descent through her grandmother, and grew up speaking English, Slovak, and (from neighbors) Italian. She lived in her grandmother's house in Cleveland, Ohio at a time and place where "it was assumed that most people spoke at least two languages", and has said that this upbringing strongly influenced her view of translation.
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey. [2] [3] Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023.