# List of women translators

This is a list of women translators of literature.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* Y
* Z
* See also
* References
* External links

## A

* 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)