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Poll: How many famous or well known translators/linguists can you name? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How many famous or well known translators/linguists can you name?".
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Tim Drayton 
Cyprus
Local time: 18:27
Turkish to English
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I do not think there is such a thing as a celebrity translator.
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| Would counting yourself as one be against the rule? | Jun 18, 2014 |
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Gudrun Maydorn (X)
Germany
Local time: 17:27
English to German
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Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Maar
He is an artist at playing with words, both for books that he has translated and for those he has written himself. Some of his own books are actually untranslatable.
[Bearbeitet am 2014-... See more Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Maar
He is an artist at playing with words, both for books that he has translated and for those he has written himself. Some of his own books are actually untranslatable.
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Steven Capsuto
United States
Local time: 11:27
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
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| Well known in their fields, if not world famous | Jun 18, 2014 |
Off the top of my head...
Edith Grossman
Gregory Rabassa
Constance Garnett
Richard Wilbur
David Magarshak
Marion Peter Holt
Fernando Navarro
Lucia Graves
Stuart Gilbert
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XXXphxxx (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:27
Portuguese to English
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Evans (X)
Local time: 16:27
Spanish to English
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Margaret Jull Costa just got the OBE for services to literature (richly deserved for her translations of Saramago, among many others).
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1. St. Jerome!!
2. Gregory Rabassa
3. Elizabeth Bishop
4. Samuel Putnam
5. Constance Garnett
6. Eugene Nida
I wanted to add Vladimir Nabokov, but it turns out his wife Vera was the translator in the family.
There's a list of famous translators at http://tinyurl.com/krdy8ol.
To my surprise, Whittaker Chambers--the famous Soviet spy--made the... See more 1. St. Jerome!!
2. Gregory Rabassa
3. Elizabeth Bishop
4. Samuel Putnam
5. Constance Garnett
6. Eugene Nida
I wanted to add Vladimir Nabokov, but it turns out his wife Vera was the translator in the family.
There's a list of famous translators at http://tinyurl.com/krdy8ol.
To my surprise, Whittaker Chambers--the famous Soviet spy--made the list. He translated "Bambi" into English. Who knew!?!!!
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and I never think of it...
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 17:27
Spanish to English
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None. There was something about one on Facebook today, but I had no time to read the article and don't recall his name...
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Jeff Whittaker
United States
Local time: 11:27
Member (2002)
Spanish to English
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 17:27
German to English
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You mean, like David Crystal, Noam Chomsky, Henry Widdowson, Sapir, Frank Palmer, David Wilson, William Nemser, Michael Halliday, Saussure, Seidlhofer, Bllomfield ... I could go on for ages.
Do you think we could stop calling people who speak a foreign language a linguist?
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| I'm surprised... | Jun 18, 2014 |
Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
I'm surprised no one mentioned my name
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Al Zaid
United States
English to Spanish
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| not linguists, then? | Jun 18, 2014 |
I take it translators are no real linguists, then... Hmmm... interesting. :|
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