List of women translators

This is a list of women translators of literature.

A

 * Mana Aghaee
 * Catharina Ahlgren (1734–c. 1800)
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825)
 * Nurduran Duman
 * Marta Dziurosz

E

 * Ellen Elias-Bursac
 * Karen Emmerich
 * Maria Espinosa

F

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

G

 * Amaia Gabantxo
 * Linda Gaboriau
 * Ann Gagliardi
 * 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

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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Bhargavi Rao (1944–2008)
 * 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
 * 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)
 * Louise Swanton-Belloc (1796–1881)
 * Anna Swanwick (1813–1899)
 * Cole Swensen
 * Fiona Sze-Lorrain

T

 * Corine Tachtiris
 * Niloufar Talebi
 * Ginny Tapley Takemori
 * Martha Tennent
 * Dorothea Tieck (1799–1841)
 * Margaret Tyler (c.1540–c.1590)

U

 * Avery Fischer Udagawa

V

 * Leila Vennewitz (1912–2007)
 * Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
 * Laima Vince
 * Saskia Vogel

W

 * Wangui wa Goro
 * Helen Wang
 * Rachel Ward
 * Alyson Waters
 * Laura Watkinson
 * Susan Wicks
 * Celina Wieniewska
 * 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)