List of women translators
Wikimedia list of persons by gender (P21) and occupation (P106)
This is a list of women translators of literature.
A
Sara Aboobacker – translator of novels into Kannada
Mana Aghaee (born 1973)
Pratibha Agrawal (born 1930)
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 (born 1951)
Esther Allen (born 1962)
Selma Ancira – winner, Read Russia Prize 2016
Alison Anderson
Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998)
Anne Milano Appel
Sarah Ardizzone
Wilhelmiina Arpiainen (1859–1922)
Sarah Austin (1793–1867)
Oana Avasilichioaei
Florence Ayscough (c.1878–1942)
B
Constance Bache (1846–1903)
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Katharine F. Baker
Albena Bakratcheva (born 1961)
Shakuntala Baliarsingh (born 1948)
Solvej Balle (born 1962)
Anna Banti (1895–1985)
Ilse Barea-Kulcsar (1902–1973)
Gili Bar-Hillel (born 1974)
Polly Barton
Zoë Beck (born 1975)
Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
Anthea Bell (1936–2018)
Clara Bell (1835–1927)
Susan Bernofsky (born 1966)
Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield (1858–1918)
Magda Bogin (born 1950)
Marilyn Booth (born 1955)
Mary Louise Booth (1831–1889)
Antonina W. Bouis
Lisa Rose Bradford
Anneke Brassinga (born 1945)
Barbara Bray (1924–2010)
Louise Briggs (1870–1945)
Erin Brightwell
Dorothy Britton (1922–2015)
Natascha Bruce
Shelly Bryant
Catharina Burea (1601–1678)
Dorothy Bussy (1865–1960)
C
Jen Calleja
Marguerite de Cambis (fl. 1550s)
Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956)
Hélène Cardona
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Juliet Winters Carpenter
Margaret Carroux (1912–1991)
Lisa Carter
Gigi Chang
Lucy Chao (1912–1998)
Allison M. Charette
Anna Gustafsson Chen (born 1965)
Chi Pang-yuan (1924–2024)
Yukie Chiri (1903–1922)
Rohini Chowdhury (born 1963)
Laura Christenson
Lyn Coffin (born 1943)
Jessica Cohen (born 1973)
Anne Coldefy-Faucard – winner, Read Russia Prize 2018
Elizabeth Colenso
Charlotte Collins (1821–1904)
Charlotte Coombe
Nina Cornyetz
Margaret Jull Costa (born 1949)
Patricia Crampton (1925–2016)
Ineke Crezee
Victoria Cribb
Jennifer Croft
Susan Curtis
D
Anne Dacier (1654–1720)
Dai Congrong
Anila Dalal (born 1933)
Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012)
Lydia Davis (born 1947)
Sarah Death
Katy Derbyshire
Katrina Dodson
Jennifer Kewley Draskau
Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825)
Nurduran Duman (born 1974)
Xenia Dyakonova
Janina Dziarnowska
Marta Dziurosz
E
Ellen Elias-Bursac
Karen Emmerich
Maria Espinosa (born 1939)
F
Marcia Falk
Jennifer Feeley
Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019)
Annie Finch (born 1956)
Sheila Fischman (born 1937)
Carolyn Forché (born 1950)
Maureen Freely (born 1952)
Marie de France (fl.
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