5 Well Known Translators In History - Ordentop

5 WELL-KNOWN TRANSLATORS IN HISTORY🙌

1️⃣St. Jerome (347-420 AD)

Saint Jerome is particularly important for having made a translation of the Bible which came to be called the Vulgate. It is not the most critical edition of the Bible, but its acceptance by the Church was fortunate.

2️⃣Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)

Burton was a prolific author, mainly on travel and ethnography. He also translated classical and Renaissance literature, with a particular interest in eastern erotica – he translated and printed the ‘Kama Sutra’ (1883) and ‘The Perfumed Garden’ (1886). He also published a complete edition of the ‘Arabian Nights’ (1885 – 1888).

3️⃣Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

At just nine years of age, Borges translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde from English into Spanish. Although he never worked for a translation agency, Borges consistently translated throughout his life. His long career as a translator includes texts from English, French, German, Old English, and even Old Norse into Spanish, including the works of William Faulkner, André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Henri Michaux, Jack London, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman and Virginia Woolf, to quote just a few.

4️⃣Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016)

Gregory Rabassa is American translator who was largely responsible for bringing the fiction of contemporary Latin America to the English-speaking public. Of his more than 30 translations from the Spanish and the Portuguese, the best known is Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970).

5️⃣Constance Garnett (1861-1946)

She was an English translator who made the great works of Russian literature available to English and American readers in the first half of the 20th century. In addition to being the first to render Dostoyevsky and Chekhov into English, she translated the complete works of Turgenev and Gogol and the major works of Tolstoy.

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5 WELL KNOWN TRANSLATORS IN HISTROY
5 WELL KNOWN TRANSLATORS IN HISTROY