Translators Database
I’m a literary translator specializing in fantasy and mystery fiction, translating from Japanese to English. As of June 2026, I have translated eight light novel volumes for Yen Press and am currently working on my ninth.
I have a Master of Translation Studies (Japanese) with Distinction from the the University of Western Australia, where I was valedictorian. (You can watch my valedictory speech
Zoë Perry’s translations of contemporary Brazilian literature have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Granta, n+1, The New York Times, Astra, The White Review and elsewhere. Her translation of “My Good Friend” by Juliana Leite, published in The Paris Review, was awarded a National Magazine Award for Fiction, and was selected by Amor Towles for a 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction....
I have been studying Japanese for the last five years with a healthy interest in how the language is localized. Growing up, I was exposed to a lot of games and novels from Japan and quickly found an appreciation for the effort required to translate them. Over the past few years I have dabbled in working on translations of videos, manga, and most recently games. Having passed N1 of the JLPT last winter, I plan to shift my focus from studying Japanese to ...
Yvette Neisser is an award-winning poet, Spanish translator, and founder of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT). Her co-translation of María Teresa Ogliastri’s “From the Diary of Madame Mao” won the Carnegie Mellon University Press Translation Prize and is forthcoming in 2026. Previous translations include “South Pole/Polo Sur” by María Teresa Ogliastri and “Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems” by Luis Alberto Ambroggio. Her p...
I translate plays, popular science and novels.
Yaerim Gen Kwon is translating Lee Seung-u’s novel In the Land of the Living (Working Title) from Korean.
Yaerim Gen Kwon is a prose writer and literary translator from Seoul, South Korea. Her writing appears in Cream City Review, Reed Magazine, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois Chicago. She hol...
Born in 1963 in Jiangsu Province, China, he holds a PhD in English Literature and retired from his English teaching at Nanjing Agricultural University. Has taught a wide array of graduate and undergraduate courses and published extensively in his research field. While a graduate student at the Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, he co-translated Pearl Buck’s biography of her father The Fighting Ange...
I have been translating books from French to English since the 1990s, starting with Anka Muhlstein’s Cavelier de La Salle, for Arcade. Among my other translations are four novels by Jean-Christophe Rufin, academician and winner of the Prix Goncourt; Machiavelli, by Patrick Boucheron; Constellation, by Adrien Bosc; and The Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli. I am currently translating a novel by the Haitian...
I’m a Spanish-to-English translator and book editor focusing on translated literature. My work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, ANMLY, Two Lines, Latin American Literature Today, Strange Horizons, and the Massachusetts Review.
I have collaborated with writers from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Spain. My co-translation (with Samantha Schnee) of Argentine...
Will Evans is the founder and publisher of Deep Vellum, a non-profit publishing house based in Dallas, Texas, specializing in translated literature. Established in 2013, Deep Vellum has become the largest publisher of literature in translation in the US, aiming to foster transnational dialogue by publishing international writers, often from underrepresented languages, countries, styles, and traditions.
In 2020, Deep Vellum acquired Dalkey Archive...
Wendeline A. Hardenberg first became curious about translation as an undergrad at Smith College, where she ultimately translated part of a novel from French as a portion of her Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature. After a dual Masters degree in Comparative Literature (with a focus on translation) and Library Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, she has gone on to a dual career as a librarian and a translator. Her translations have been publish...
Wendy Call (she/ella) is author, co-editor, or translator of nine books, including the annual anthology she co-founded, Best Literary Translations. Her focus as a translator is bilingual works by Indigenous / First Nations women authors in Mexico and elsewhere in Abya Yala. A recent Fulbright Scholar to Colombia and Translator in Residence at the University of Iowa, she teaches creative nonfiction in the Rainier Writing Worksh...
Viswanathan (Visu) Mahalingam is a writer and translator. His stories, book reviews, literary criticism, and translations have appeared in print and online publications including Kaalam, Syamantakam, Neeli, Aroo, Solvanam, and Kizhakku Today.
His first book in Tamil, Iru Kadal Oru Nilam (இரு கடல் ஒரு நிலம்), a travelogue, was published by Vishnupuram...
Veronica is an international rights specialist, managing world domination for creators in all languages, helping them conquer new markets and expand their brand worldwide, while building connections across linguistic and cultural borders. With over a decade of experience in the publishing industry specializing in translation and subsidiary rights licensing on both the trade publisher and agency side, Veronica has managed global campaigns for New York Ti...
Well established translator of English-Persian Film-related literature in Iran, I have also translated fiction (short stories as well as novels). Translations of Persian-English material is my next step, with a manuscript (a novel) ready for publication, by a well-known Iranian author.
Urayoán Noel is the translator of Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s adjacent islands (Ugly Duckling/DoubleCross/La Impresora) and Wingston González’s no budu please (Ugly Duckling) and What will I do with my place in the sky (Toronto Biennial of Art), and the editor and translator of Pablo de Rokha’s Architecture of Dispersed Lif...
Umair Kazi is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as Non-Voting Advisory Director. He is a lawyer, writer, and translator from Urdu. He currently serves as the Director of Policy & Advocacy for the Authors Guild, and is a principal drafter of the Authors Guild’s Literary Translation Model Contract and Commentary. His translations of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz have appeared in Circumference, Brooklyn Rail’s In Translatio...
Troy Wellington Smith received his PhD in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023. He has translated Thomasine Gyllembourg’s “An Everyday Story” (2019) and her Two Ages: A Novella (Brill 2026).
Chinese-to-English translator. Debut book ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH by Xiao Hai out with Granta Magazine Editions. Currently translating Taiwanese novelist Tong Wei-Ger, Taiwanese poet/writer Liu Chen-Chun, and Chinese short story writer Ban Yu. Work published in Granta, The Wall Street Journal, The Georgia Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. Winner of the Granum Translation Prize 2024.
Todd Fredson is a poet, a critic, and a translator of Afro-francophone and West African literature. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Crucifix-Blocks (Tebot Bach, 2012), which won the Patricia Bibby First Book Award, and Century Worm (New Issues Press, 2018).
He has made French to English translations of two books by Ivorian poet Josué Guébo, My country, tonight (Action Books, 2016) and Think o...
TIMOTHY GREGORY is an Arabic to English translator from Seattle, Washington. For more than twenty- five years, he has worked as a translator in both the public and the private sectors. His passion as a reader of novels of all kinds led him to pursue the shift to translating literature, leading to an MA in translation from the University of Illinois in 2018. Translated works include the Warriors and Warlocks trilogy by Dr. Monther Alkabbani, published by...
Tim Tim Cheng is translating Ka Yee Lee’s Exposure from Chinese.
Tim Tim Cheng (she/they) is the author of The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet, Tapping At Glass (Verve, 2023), was shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and named one of The Poetry Society’s Books of the Year. She co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve,...
Schaffner Press is an independent publishing company based in Tucson, AZ which focuses on books of high literary quality and topics of social concern. Publisher Tim Schaffner, who founded SP in 2001, has a special interest in challenging works of contemporary fiction and non-fiction from cultures and languages other than English. Both he and senior editor Sean Murphy strive to maintain their mission statement to bring new works of universal social conce...
Tiffany Troy is the author of Dominus (BlazeVOX [books]). She is Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor of Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at The Los Angeles Review, Assistant Poetry Editor at Asymptote, and Co-Editor of Matter.
Ms. Troy’s literary criticism, translation, and creative writing are published or forthcoming in literary journals like The Adroit Journal, Am...
Thuy Dinh is a bilingual critic, literary translator, coeditor of the Vietnamese webzine Da Màu, and editor-at-large at Asymptote Journal. She’s also a freelance book critic at NPR Books. Her essays and poetry translations have appeared in Asymptote, Manoa, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, among others.
Thierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator from French, with an interest in francophone writers from the Black diaspora. He is the translator of A Sun to be Sewn (Other Press) by Jean D’Amérique, named a 2023 NPR Book of the Day, and his translation of Cameroonian writer Francis Bebey’s Three Little Shoeshiners was longlisted for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. He has been awarded fellowships, grants, and residencies from the F...
Thalatha Gunasekara will translate Surekha Samarasena’s Short Story collection Estrogen from Sinhalese.
Thalatha Gunasekara grew up in a rural village in Sri Lanka, where her early education took place in a small local school. It was there that her love for the Sinhala language was shaped, despite the absence of formal English instruction. Her love for English was nurtured by her family, even though they themselves had limit...
Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Handke, and Montaigne. A Guggenheim, NEA and Berlin Prize Fellow, she was awarded the 2017 PEN Award for Translation. She is an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and curator of the Festival Neue Literature, New York City’s only German language literature festival. www.tesslewis.org
Teresa Villa-Ignacio’s translations include Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford University Press 2016), Hocine Tandjaoui’s Clamor (Litmus 2021), and Roland Barthes’ The Eiffel Tower (Seuil 2024). The recipient of an NEA Literary Translation Fellows Award and an Albertine Translation Fund Grant, she is also a literary scholar whose research investigates the role...
Ted Dodson is the author of An Orange (Pioneer Works / Wonder, 2021) and co-translator of Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (Action Books, 2026). He is a contributing editor for BOMB, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Sylvia Franke translates fiction and creative non-fiction from German to English. Her translations have appeared in “The Malahat Review” and “The Antigonish Review”. She is a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Recipient. In 2023 she was long-listed for the John Dryden Translation Competition.
Suzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at University of California,Santa Barbara and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, which recognizes the translator’slifetime achievements.
Born in the Harz Mountains of Germany, Susanne LaBrake was raised in California, and resides in Texas. She writes long and short form fiction, but her great joy is found in translating the German language with all its linguistic beauty and endless frustrations. Her debut translation, The Big Black Bird (orig. Der Grosse Schwarze Vogel), is forthcoming from Raven Translation Publishing. Susanne is currently working on her next two translations.
Susanna Lang’s translation of poetry by Souad Labbize, My Soul Has No Corners, is available from Diálogos Books (2023), and a new collection by Labbize, Unfasten the silk of your silence, is now available from Éditions des Lisières (2025). Other translations include Words in Stone by Yves Bonnefoy (University of Massachusetts Press, 1976). Her translations of these and other French poets are published or forthcoming in
Launched in 2003, Words Without Borders (www.wordswithoutborders.org) publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and graphic literature translated from all languages, and is particularly interested in underrepresented languages, writers not yet published in English, and emerging translators.
Susan Harris is the editorial director of Words Without Borders and the co-editor with Ilya Kaminsky of THE ECCO ANTHOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL POETR...
Subhashree Beeman is a translator working in Tamil, French, Spanish, and English. She won the 2024 PEN/Heim Translation Grant for a French novel. She is translating Nagarathinam Krishna’s novel Saigon Puducherry for the 2024 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship for the Tamil language under the guidance of award-winning translator Mr Kalyan Raman. Her translations have appeared in USAWA magazine, The White Review Issue no.26, Prop(r)ose Magazine, K...
Stine An (안수연) is a poet, literary translator, and performer based in Queens. Her translations have appeared in Best Literary Translations 2024, Words Without Borders, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard College and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and th...
For the last several years, I have been focusing on translating legal materials, working on internationally significant legal cases in Brazil, Mozambique, Macau, and Portugal. At the same time, I maintain a lifelong passion for literature and the arts, translating theater, poetry, and music. I see strong linkages between the two fields and in both arenas my work honors the voice and spirit of the source material with a commitment to inclusion, social ju...
Steve Halle publishes books, writes, and teaches in Normal, Illinois, where he is the director of the Publications Unit in the Department of English at Illinois State University, which works with affiliated literary journals Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora and SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review), as well as the small presses Downstate Legacies, PRESS 254, and FC2 (Fiction Collective Two). He is the founder...
I am a literary translator, seasoned localization specialist, and Ph.D. candidate specializing in French and Italian. I hold a B.A. in Romance Languages and an M.S. in Translation & Interpreting from New York University, where I was awarded the NYU Prix Jindřich Zezula in recognition of excellence in translation. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham (UK), where my research focuses on translation, graphic narrative, and th...
Sooj Heo is translating a book of poems by a Korean poet.
Sooj is a Korean American artist and literary translator based in Berlin.
She began her literature translation journey in 2025, when she enrolled in the yearlong program at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea in 2025. That same year, she received the grand prize in the poetry section of the 56th Modern Korean Literature Translation Award for her translation of poems by Pak...
Snehajaya Karanth will translate Sunanda Kadame’s stories from Kannada.
Snehajaya Karanth is a bilingual writer and artist from Udupi, living in Bangalore, India. She has worked as a writer primarily in English across print media, communications, art and culture sector, and marketing. Off the clock, she writes in Kannada and has to her credit bylines for poems and essays in reputed Kannada dailies and magazines. She was shortlisted for Toto Awa...
Grew up in Colorado, studied languages in this order: French, German, Russian, Spanish, B/C/M/S (what we then called Serbo-Croatian), Czech, Estonian. I’ve published one book of my own poetry, too. In my day job I teach Russian language and literature (and science fiction! and translation theory and practice!) at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Shuchi Agrawal is translating Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh’s final novel Godhuli (2008) from Hindi to English.
Shuchi Agrawal first grew up in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Goa, where her peers conversed largely in languages she couldn’t understand like Konkani, Marathi, Chhattisgarhi, Odia, and Nepali. As each city unraveled a dizzying range of traditions, she learned that language and culture were powerful bridges to people and to ...
Sherry Roush is the Liberal Arts Professor of Italian specializing in medieval/renaissance and early modern Italian literature and culture at Penn State University. Her translations and editions include the prose romances Lodovico Corfino: Phileto’s Story (2024) and Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino (2023), which received a 2020 NEA award for Literary Translation and a 2020 NEH Faculty Research fellowship. She a...
Shelley Frisch’s translations from German, including biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography), Hannah Arendt, and Franz Kafka, as well as other works of fiction and nonfiction, have been awarded numerous translation prizes, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and has served as jury chair for the Helen and Kurt Wolf...
Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator of Russian and Uzbek in Seattle, Washington. She translates fiction, poetry, screenplays, games, journalism, and scholarly writing, with a special focus on the contemporary literature of Central Asia. Fairweather-Vega holds degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington. As a translator, she is most interested in the intersection of culture and politics in modern history. ...
SHARON E. RHODES is a literary scholar, writer, and translator working from Danish, Old English and Latin. She was selected as an Emerging Translator by the National Centre for Writing in 2020, and her work has been supported by numerous grants from the Danish Arts Foundation. She was selected as a judge for the 2022 PEN Translation Award and is an active member of the Danish to English Literary Translators (DELT). Her scholarship focuses on translation...
Sharon Fish Mooney is the translator of Selected Poems of Jules Breton: From the Letters of Vincent van Gogh (2024) Resource Publications/Wipf and Stock Publishers. She is also author of Bending Toward Heaven: Poems After the Art of Vincent van Gogh (an ekphrastic book of sonnets) and editor of A Rustling and Waking Within (an ekphrastic anthology/Ohio Poetry Association/OPA Press). She has published translations from the Fren...
Shaina Brassard is an American writer and translator focused on bringing Bolivian and South American fiction to English-speaking audiences. She is at work on the translation of Ayer el fuego/Yesterday’s Fire by Bolivian author Rodrigo Urquiola Flores. Her work has been published in Asymptote and she was a resident of Art Omi: Writers Translation Lab in 2024.
Shabnam Nadiya is a Bangladeshi writer and translator. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she was awarded the 2019 Steinbeck Fellowship; a 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Grant; a 2022 PEN Presents grant, and the 2019 Himal Southasian Short Story Prize for her translation of Mashiul Alam’s Milk. Her published translations include Mashiul Alam’s The Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella (Westland, 2024), Lee...
Writer and translator based in MD/DC. MFA in Writing (Fiction) from Vermont College of Fine Arts. ATA-Certified Translator (Korean to English). LTI Korea Translation Award for New Translators (2012). Member of ATA and NAJIT. Published in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review, Tampa Review, Unbroken Journal, Five on the Fifth.
Sebastian Schulman is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as Treasurer. He is a writer, editor, and literary translator from Yiddish, Esperanto, French, and Russian. His original writing and translations have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies and journals, including Two Lines, Words Without Borders, and Electric Literature. Schulman’s translation of Spomenka Štimec’s Esperanto-language novel Croatian War Noctu...
Sean F. Munro is a poet, professor of English, associate editor for Lavender Ink / Diálogos (opens in new tab), & executive director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival (opens in new tab). Sean also co-curates
Sean Cotter is the translator of many works of Romanian literature, including an award-winning edition of Nichita Stănescu’s poetry, Wheel with a Single Spoke, and the novel FEM by Magda Cârneci. His study of Romanian translators, Literary Translation and the Idea of a Minor Romania, was awarded the biennial book prize of the Society for Romanian Studies. Recipient of a PEN/Heim grant and two fellowships from the Natio...
Sean Gasper Bye is currently serving as Director of Membership and Development. He joined ALTA’s staff as Interim Executive Director in August 2024.
Prior to that, he served on the Board from 2020-2024. Sean is a translator of Polish literature into English, focusing on contemporary literary fiction and reportage. His translations have won the EBRD Literary Prize and the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize, and been shortlisted for the Warwick...
Sarah Rebecca Kersley is a translator, writer and editor, originally from the UK and based in Brazil for the past two decades. Her translations of work by Brazilian contemporary poets, writers and scholars have appeared in places such as Washington Square Review, Best Small Fictions, Two Lines World Writing in Translation, The Critical Flame, Asymptote, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere, and in chapbooks published by Toad Press/Veliz Books (Void Odyssey, ...
Sarah Gale is Editor and Director of Publicity at Archipelago Books, a nonprofit press devoted to contemporary and classic world literature in translation.
I am most interested in hearing pitches of novels and short stories from translators.
Sandra Waters is one of three coeditors of Other Voices of Italy, a series comprised of thirteen titles published since January 2023 with Rutgers University Press. OVOI presents texts in a variety of genres originally written in Italian. Much like the symbiotic relationship between the wolf and the raven, its principal aim is to introduce new or past author—who have until now been marginalized—to an English-speaking readership. This series also high...
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