Translator Archives - Infinite Women

Paola Velasco

Essayist, storyteller, translator, poet, editor, screenwriter and Mexican cultural promoter

Ileana Villareal Jirash

Mexican playwright and translator

Suni Paz was one of the first artists to bring the nueva canción tradition—the “new song” music of the 1960s and 1970s—to North American audiences. For more than half of a century, her work as an American songwriter and performer of Latin American folk music has resonated as a cultural force, engaging people of all backgrounds and ages.

Elizabeth Cary

1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator

Ethna Byrne-Costigan

Irish academic and writer

Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham

Irish poet and translator

Emily Anderson

Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator

Lydia Nadejena

Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator

Dorothea Klumpke

American astronomer who became the head of the bureau for the measurements of the plates of the Astro-photographic Catalogue at the Paris Observatory.

Célia Bertin

Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.