20th-century translators

J. M. Coetzee

South African-Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

Guy Davenport

American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.

Hubert Butler

Irish essayist who wrote on a wide range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II. He also travelled to Nazi Austria on his own initiative and at his own expense and helped save Jews from being sent to concentration camps.

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature