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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
This is a list of personal names known in English that are modified from another language and are or were not used among the person themselves. It does not include: names of monarchs, which are commonly translated (e.g. Pope Francis), although current and recent monarchs are often untranslated today (e.g. Felipe VI of Spain)
Bill Porter (born October 3, 1943) is an American author who translates under the pen-name Red Pine (Chinese: 赤松; pinyin: Chì Sōng).He is a translator of Chinese texts, primarily Taoist and Buddhist, including poetry and sūtras.
Robert Fagles (/ ˈ f eɪ ɡ əl z /; [1] September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) [2] [3] was an American translator, poet, and academic. He was best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer.
Thupten Jinpa Langri (born 1958) [1] is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, former monk and an academic of religious studies and both Eastern and Western philosophy. He has been the principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. [1]
The name and nature of translation studies (1975) James Stratton Holmes (2 May 1924 – 6 November 1986) was an American-Dutch poet , translator , and translation scholar. [ 1 ] He sometimes published his work using his real name James S. Holmes, and other times the pen names Jim Holmes and Jacob Lowland.
A universal translator is a device common to many science fiction works, especially on television. ... (The name is a combination of the words "micro" and "soft", ...