List of translators

By text

List of Bible translators

List of translations of the Qur'an

List of Tirukkural translators

Harry Potter in translation

Into Arabic

Ahmed Shawqi

Hafez Ibrahim

Ibn al-Muqaffa'

Rifa'a el-Tahtawi

Taha Hussein – Sophocles, Racine, others

Into Albanian

Faik Konica

Fan Noli

Luan Rama

Petro Zheji

Robert Shvarc

Mirela Kumbaro

Into Armenian

Levon Ananyan

Vahagn Davtyan

Hovhannes Masehian

Vahan Malezian

Yervant Odian

Nahapet Rusinian

Hamo Sahyan

Vardges Sureniants

Leon Surmelian

Alexander Tsaturian

Rita Vorperian

Into Azerbaijani (Azeri)

Hamlet Isaxanli (Isayev) - translator of poems from Russian, English and French

Into Bulgarian

Albena Bakratcheva

Valeri Petrov

Nikolai B. Popov

Into Chinese

Wang Chong

Wang Weike

Into English

List of translators into English

Into French

Étienne Aignan

Jacques Amyot produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North

Charles Baudelaire produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe

Georges Jean-Aubry

Yves Bonnefoy, noted contemporary translator, particularly of English poetry.

Marie De Cotteblanche (c1520 - c1584), a French noble woman known for her skill in languages and translation of works from Spanish to French.

Chateaubriand translated Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost into French prose

Anne Dacier – translated classical Greek works

Antoine Galland - translated the first European edition of the Arabian Nights

Jean Hyppolite - translated Hegel and popularized his work

Leconte de Lisle – translated classical Greek authors

Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune - translated medical and philological works into French

Stéphane Mallarmé - translated the poetry of E.A. Poe

J. C. Mardrus - a translator of the Arabian Nights

Boris Vian - translated 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 des Å (1958)

Into German

Markus Hediger – translated novels of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz and poems of Nicolas Bouvier

Henny Koch - produced the first translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1890

Franz Kuhn - translator of many Chinese works including Dream of the Red Chamber into German

Schlegel and Tieck produced the most famous German translation of Shakespeare

Johann Heinrich Voss - translated classical poetry into German

Into Greek

Yannis Livadas - the most productive translator concerning modern and postmodern English and American poetry in Greek

Into Hebrew

Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi - translated scientific works from Arabic into Hebrew (for further translation into Latin by Plato of Tivoli)

Yehuda Alharizi - translated Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed and Arabic maqama poetry

T. Carmi - Shakespeare

Ibn Tibbon family - translated Greek, Roman, Arab, and Jewish works from Arabic

Emperor D. Pedro II - translated poetry by Luís de Camões from Portuguese

Abraham Regelson - translated literature from English and Yiddish

Yitzhak Salkinsohn - relatively early (19th century) translator of Milton and Shakespeare

Abraham Shlonsky - translated Shakespeare, Gogol, and others

Adin Steinsaltz - dozens of volumes of Talmud from Aramaic

Shaul Tchernichovsky - prolific literary translator

Into Hindi

Nirmal Verma - translated Karel Capek, Jiri Fried, Joseph Skoversky, Milan Kundera, Bohumil Hrabal

Into Interlingua

Alexander Gode - translated scientific and medical literature into Interlingua

Into Italian

Italo Calvino - translated Raymond Queneau's Les fleurs bleues (The Blue Flowers)

Ettore Capriolo - translated McLuhan, Camus, Rushdie

Eduardo De Filippo - translated Shakespeare's The Tempest into 18th century Neapolitan

Vincenzo Mantovani - translated works by William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Saul Bellow, Malcolm Lowry, Charles Bukowski, Isaac Asimov, Richard Ford, William Gaddis, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Jerzy Kosinski and others

Grazyna Miller - translated Pope John Paul II's Roman Triptych: Meditations from Polish into Italian

Cesare Pavese - translated Melville, Dickens and others

Fernanda Pivano - translated works by Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Lee Masters, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thornton Wilder, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and many other English-language authors

Elio Vittorini - translated works by Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence and Edgar Allan Poe

Into Japanese

Ogai Mori - translator of Goethe and Andersen (from the German)

Haruki Murakami - translator of Raymond Chandler

Maruya Saiichi - translator of Joyce

Into Juhuri

Sergey Izgiyaev - translated the libretto of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's opera Layla and Majnun, and poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Suleyman Stalsky, Gamzat Tsadasa, Rasul Gamzatov and other poets

Into Latin

Boniface Consiliarius translated numerous church documents from Greek into Latin.

Herman of Carinthia translated Arabic scientific texts into Latin.

St. Jerome produced the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible; is regarded among Christians as the patron saint of translators.

Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia rendered the Qur'an into Latin (1142-1143)

William of Moerbeke medieval translator of Aristotle and ancient Greek science

Into Persian

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad – translated works by Camus, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, etc.

Into Polish

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński – prolific translator of French classic literature; murdered by the Nazis.

Stanisław Czerski - translator of the fables of Phaedrus

Ignacy Krasicki – translated Plutarch and Ossian.

Bolesław Leśmian – poet who translated the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

Maciej Słomczyński – translator of James Joyce's Ulysses and of the complete works of Shakespeare.

Robert Stiller – prolific translator of classic and contemporary literature, from a score of languages, European as well as Oriental.

Władysław Syrokomla – superb translator of Latin, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian poets, including works by Béranger, Goethe, Heine, Lermontov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko.

Julian Tuwim – translator of Alexander Pushkin and other Russian poets.

Adam Ważyk – translator of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

Into Portuguese

Machado de Assis

Monteiro Lobato

Carlos do Amaral Freire

Daniel Galera

Décio Pignatari - translator of Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and McLuhan

Abraham Usque

Into Russian

Aleksey Mikhalyov - translated John Steinbeck's East of Eden and many other authors, as well as numerous films and cartoons

Ivan Bunin - translated The Song of Hiawatha

Alexander Druzhinin - translated several of Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of George Crabbe

Nikolay Gnedich - made the classical translation of The Iliad

Mikhail Lozinsky - made the classical translation of The Divine Comedy

Samuil Marshak - translated Shakespeare's sonnets, among his other works

Midori Miura - translated Non-chan kumo ni noru by Momoko Ishii

Vladimir Nabokov - translated Alice in Wonderland and Lolita

Boris Pasternak - translated Faust and Hamlet

Viktor Golyshev - translated Light in August, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, All the King's Men, Theophilus North, 1984, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Set This House on Fire, Pulp and other books. He mostly worked on American literature

Rita Rait-Kovaleva - translated The Catcher in the Rye and other works, including those by William Faulkner, Franz Kafka and Heinrich Böll.

Into Spanish

Jorge Luis Borges - translated many English, French, and German works into Spanish

Javier Marías - translated many English works into Spanish

Into Swahili

Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania, translated Shakespeare into Swahili

Into Swedish

Carl August Hagberg – translator or Shakespeare.

Into Luganda

Iddi Ndyabawe - translator of Attar

Self-translators

(Authors who translated their own work into other languages)

Natyaguru Nurul Momen

Samuel Beckett

Karen Blixen

Jorge Luis Borges

Julien Green

Girish Karnad

Vladimir Nabokov

Rabindranath Tagore