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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 ...
This is a list of women translators of literature. A. Mana Aghaee; Catharina Ahlgren (1734 –c. 1800) Francesca Alexander (1837–1917) Acija Alfirević ...
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
Lord, give your people grace to hear and keep your word that, after the example of your servant William Tyndale, we may not only profess your gospel but also be ready to suffer and die for it, to the honor of your name; Tyndale is honored in the Calendar of saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as a translator and martyr the same ...
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.