List of women translators

This is a list of women translators of literature.

A

• Sara Aboobacker – translator of novels into Kannada
• Mana Aghaee
• Catharina Ahlgren (1734–c. 1800)
• Lidiia Alekseeva (1909–1989) – translated the works of Croatian writer Ivan Gundulić into Russian
• Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)
• Acija Alfirević
• Esther Allen
• Selma Ancira – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016
• Alison Anderson
• Anne Milano Appel
• Sarah Ardizzone
• Sarah Austin (1793–1867)
• Oana Avasilichioaei
• Florence Ayscough (c.1878–1942)

B

• Constance Bache (1846–1903)
• Michelle Bailat-Jones
• Katharine F. Baker
• Shakuntala Baliarsingh (born 1948)
• Anna Banti (1895–1985)
• Gili Bar-Hillel
• Polly Barton
• Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
• Anthea Bell (1936–2018)
• Clara Bell (1835–1927)
• Susan Bernofsky
• Magda Bogin
• Marilyn Booth
• Mary Louise Booth (1831–1889)
• Antonina W. Bouis
• Lisa Rose Bradford
• Barbara Bray (1924–2010)
• Louise Briggs (1870–1945)
• Erin Brightwell
• Dorothy Britton (1922–2015)
• Natascha Bruce
• Shelly Bryant
• Dorothy Bussy (1865–1960)

C

• Jen Calleja
• Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956)
• Hélène Cardona
• Nancy Naomi Carlson
• Juliet Winters Carpenter
• Lisa Carter
• Gigi Chang
• Allison M. Charette
• Anna Gustafsson Chen
• Chi Pang-yuan
• Yukie Chiri (1903–1922)
• Rohini Chowdhury
• Laura Christenson
• Lyn Coffin
• Jessica Cohen
• Anne Coldefy-Faucard – winner, Read Russia Prize 2018
• Charlotte Collins
• Charlotte Coombe
• Nina Cornyetz
• Margaret Jull Costa
• Patricia Crampton (1925–2016)
• Ineke Crezee
• Victoria Cribb
• Jennifer Croft
• Susan Curtis

D

• Anne Dacier (1654–1720)
• Dai Congrong
• Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012)
• Lydia Davis
• Sarah Death
• Katy Derbyshire
• Katrina Dodson
• Jennifer Kewley Draskau
• Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825)
• Nurduran Duman
• Marta Dziurosz

E

• Ellen Elias-Bursac
• Karen Emmerich
• Maria Espinosa

F

• Marcia Falk
• Jennifer Feeley
• Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019)
• Annie Finch
• Sheila Fischman
• Carolyn Forché
• Maureen Freely
• Shelley Frisch

G

• Amaia Gabantxo
• Linda Gaboriau
• Ann Gagliardi
• Nora Gal (1912–1991)
• Constance Garnett (1861–1946)
• Svetlana Geier
• Sylvie Gentil (1958–2017)
• Anna Gerasimova
• María José Giménez
• Barbara Godard (1942–2010)
• Leah Goldberg (1911–1970)
• Ann Goldstein
• Eleanor Goodman
• Luise Gottsched (1713–1762)
• Lucia Graves
• Edith Grossman
• Katia Grubisic
• Lady Charlotte Guest (1812–1895)

H

• Marilyn Hacker
• Sonya Haddad (1936–2004)
• Ivana Hadži-Popović
• Hala Halim
• Geraldine Harcourt (1952–2019)
• Choman Hardi
• Nicky Harman
• Michelle Hartman
• Rosalind Harvey
• Celia Hawkesworth
• Lisa Hayden – Read Russia Prize 2016
• Matilda Hays (1820–1897)
• Hélène Henry-Safier – winner, Read Russia Prize 2012
• Mary Herbert (1561–1621)
• Rachel Hildebrandt
• Cathy Hirano
• Mary Hobson
• Lakshmi Holmstrom (1935–2016)
• Anna Holmwood
• Amanda Hopkinson
• Penny Hueston
• Sophie Hughes
• Anna Hume (c.1600–c.1650)
• Adriana Hunter
• Sawad Hussain

I

• Jane Ingham (1897–1982)
• Anne Ishii

J

• Carol Brown Janeway (1944–2015)
• Elisabeth Jaquette
• Katrine Øgaard Jensen
• Chenxin Jiang
• Constance Jones (1848–1922)
• Kira Josefsson
• Margaret Jull Costa

K

• Hilary Kaplan
• Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
• Sara Khalili
• Esther Kinsky
• Rachel Klein
• Patricia Klobusiczky
• Tina Kover

L

• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Maria Laina
• Rika Lesser
• Suzanne Jill Levine
• Tess Lewis
• Janet Limonard
• Sylvia Li-chun Lin
• Andrea Lingenfelter
• Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Julia Lovell
• Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (1876–1963)
• Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007)
• Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley (1537–1587)
• Joyce Lussu (1912–1998)

M

• Christina MacSweeney
• Charlotte Mandell
• Emma Manley
• Canan Marasligil
• Linda Marianello
• Farzana Marie
• Maria Mercè Marçal (1952–1998)
• Sophie Maríñez
• Ruth Martin
• Lyn Marven
• Eleanor Marx (1855–1898)
• Melanie Mauthner
• Bonnie McDougall
• Megan McDowell
• Nanette McGuinness
• Anne McLean
• Erica Mena
• Inga Michaeli
• Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore (1846–1890)
• Zdravka Mihaylova
• Diana Mitford (1910–2003)
• Cläre Mjøen
• Mihaela Moscaliuc
• Erín Moure
• Luisetta Mudie
• Ottilie Mulzet

N

• Irina Negrea
• Marilyn Nelson
• Mary Ann Newman
• Lucy North
• Sara Nović
• Tiina Nunnally

O

• Patricia Oliver
• Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871–1932)

P

• Helena Janina Pajzderska (1862–1927)
• Mrs H.B. Paull (1812-1888)
• Ève Paul-Margueritte (1885–1971)
• Lucie Paul-Margueritte (1886–1955)
• Charlotte Payne-Townshend (1857–1943)
• Fernanda Pivano (1917–2009)
• Agnieszka Pokojska
• Marie Ponsot (1921–2019)
• Allison Markin Powell
• Alta Price
• Minna Zallman Proctor

Q

• Isabel Quigly

R

• Emma Ramadan
• Rita Rait-Kovaleva (1898–1988)
• Bhargavi Rao (1944–2008)
• Anna Řeháková (1850–1937)
• Maruxa Relaño
• Famida Riaz
• Chloe Garcia Roberts
• Nancy N. Roberts
• Angela Rodel
• Lola Rogers
• Louise Rogers Lalaurie
• Margaret Roper (1505–1544)
• Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875–1960)

S

• Marta Sánchez-Nieves – winner, Read Russia Prize, 2018
• Elvira Sastre
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
• Claudia Scandura – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016
• Louisa Frederica Adela Schafer (born 1865) – translated English hymns in Esperanto
• Samantha Schnee
• Marian Schwartz – winner, Read Russia Prize 2014
• Ros Schwartz
• Gail Scott
• Jamie Lee Searle
• Kyoko Selden (1936–2013)
• Danica Seleskovitch (1921–2001)
• Nava Semel (1954–2017)
• Yvette Siegert
• Sirindhorn
• Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020)
• Rachael Small
• Nicky Smalley
• Deborah Smith
• Hilde Spiel (1911–1990)
• Marielle Sutherland, winner of the Stevns Translation Prize
• Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881)
• Anna Swanwick (1813–1899)
• Cole Swensen
• Fiona Sze-Lorrain

T

• Corine Tachtiris
• Niloufar Talebi
• Ginny Tapley Takemori
• Martha Tennent
• Anne Thompson Melo, winner of the Stevns Translation Prize
• Dorothea Tieck (1799–1841)
• Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache (1840–1926)
• Margaret Tyler (c.1540–c.1590)

U

• Avery Fischer Udagawa

V

• Leila Vennewitz (1912–2007)
• Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
• Laima Vince
• Saskia Vogel
• Larissa Volokhonsky

W

• Claire Wadie, winner of the Stevns Translation Prize
• Wangui wa Goro
• Helen Wang
• Rachel Ward
• Alyson Waters
• Laura Watkinson
• Susan Wicks
• Celina Wieniewska
• Marion Wiesel
• Sian Williams
• Emily Wilson
• Natasha Wimmer
• Sholeh Wolpé
• Frances Wood
• Barbara Wright (1915–2009)

Y

• Gladys Yang

Z

• Aniela Zagórska (1881–1943)
• Beryl de Zoete (1879–1962)

See also

• List of translators
• Women in Translation: An Interview with Margaret Carson & Alta L. Price

References

External links

• Some famous women translators of the past - by Marie Lebert