Translator Archives - Infinite Women

Dr Emily Wilson

The first female scholar to translate Homer’s Odyssey into English in 2017.

Mary was a significant but uncredited contributor to her husband Charles’s 1830s book, Principles of Geology. She is also known for her studies on evolution, having worked with Charles Darwin and conducted a study in 1854 of Canary Island’s land snails comparable to Darwin’s of Galapagos tortoises.

Véra Nabokova

Vera Nabokova gave up her own career to become her husband’s editor, reviewer, typist, business manager, and agent, as well as supporting their family financially as a secretary and translator.

Adele Masi Lessona

Italian scientific and literary translator

Shahrnush Parsipur

Considered one of Iran’s bravest and boldest literary voices

Cari Gasiewicz

U.S. military officer

Marie de France

Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first known female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe.