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Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North; E. S. Ariel – translator of the Kural; Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe; Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of ...
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 Takahashi Ikemoto; Royall Tyler – translator of The Tale of Genji as well as various Japanese folklore and Noh plays
Rank Author Nationality Original language Target languages Total no. of translations 1: Agatha Christie: English: 103 [2]: 7,236 [3]: 2: Jules Verne: French — 4,751 ...
Georg Sauerwein (1831–1904), German translator and private tutor. He spoke and wrote twenty-six languages. [36] Pétrus Ký (1837–1898), Vietnamese scholar. He spoke eight languages and had reasonable competence in several others. [37] James Murray (1837–1915), Scottish lexicographer. He was familiar with a wide range of languages and ...
He is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate) and his commentaries on the whole Bible. Jerome attempted to create a translation of the Old Testament based on a Hebrew version, rather than the Septuagint, as prior Latin Bible translations had done. His list of writings is extensive.
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العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) (Arabic: أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ʾAbū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn ʾIsḥāq al-ʿIbādī (808–873), known in Latin as Johannitius, was an influential Arab Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist.