Translations during the Spanish Golden AgeW
Translations during the Spanish Golden Age

During the Spanish Golden Age a great number of translations were made, specially from Arabic, Latin and Greek classics, into Spanish, and in turn, from Spanish into other languages.

Bahira AbdulatifW
Bahira Abdulatif

Bahira Abdulatif Yasin is an Iraqi writer, translator and professor living in Madrid.

José AlbiW
José Albi

José Albi Fita was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and translator. He was the honorary president of the Asociación Valenciana de Escritores y Críticos Literarios. Albi was the "last of the post-Spanish Civil War poets".

Amparo AlvajarW
Amparo Alvajar

María del Amparo Alvajar López Jean, most commonly known as Amparo Alvajar, was a Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer from Galicia, as well as a translator for international organizations.

Lourdes AuzmendiW
Lourdes Auzmendi

Lourdes Auzmendi Aierbe is a translator, interpreter and politician. She is best known as the Basque government's Deputy Minister for Linguistic Policy.

Carmen de BurgosW
Carmen de Burgos

Carmen de Burgos y Seguí was a Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women's rights activist. Johnson describes her as a "modern" if not "modernist" writer.

Javier de BurgosW
Javier de Burgos

Francisco Javier de Burgos y del Olmo was a Spanish jurist, politician, journalist, and translator.

Gabriela BusteloW
Gabriela Bustelo

Gabriela Bustelo is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.

Zenobia CamprubíW
Zenobia Camprubí

Zenobia Camprubí Aymar was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.

Rafael Cansinos-AssénsW
Rafael Cansinos-Asséns

Rafael Cansinos Asséns, born in Seville, was a Spanish poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.

Pepita CarpeñaW
Pepita Carpeña

Josefa Carpena-Amat, known by the pseudonym Pepita Carpeña, was a militant trade unionist, writer, and Spanish anarchist.

Mercedes CebriánW
Mercedes Cebrián

Mercedes Cebrián is a Spanish writer and translator.

Pilar del RíoW
Pilar del Río

María del Pilar del Río Sánchez is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator, president of José Saramago Foundation.

Enrique FlórezW
Enrique Flórez

Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro was a Spanish historian.

Francisco García TortosaW
Francisco García Tortosa

Francisco García Tortosa is a Spanish University Professor, literary critic, and translator into Spanish. In Spain García Tortosa is considered one of the chief experts on the figure and work of the Irish writer, James Joyce, whose creations he has translated and about which he has published a wide range of studies. The Irish hispanist, Ian Gibson, has called García Tortosa «Spain's leading expert on Joyce», while considering his translation of Ulysses, in collaboration with María Luisa Venegas, as «prodigious».

Gloria Giner de los Ríos GarcíaW
Gloria Giner de los Ríos García

Gloria Giner de los Ríos García was a Spanish teacher at the Escuela Normal Superior de Maestras and the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. The author of innovative manuals dedicated to the teaching of history and geography, she, together with Leonor Serrano Pablo, developed the educational "recipe" that they called "enthusiastic observation". They also worked to change the androcentric canon of geographical studies to include women.

Jon JuaristiW
Jon Juaristi

Jon Juaristi Linacero is a Spanish poet, essayist and translator in Spanish and Basque, as well as a self-confessed former ETA militant. At the moment he resides in Madrid.

Julián JuderíasW
Julián Juderías

Julián Juderías y Loyot was a Spanish historian, sociologist, literary critic, journalist, translator and interpreter.

Andrés LagunaW
Andrés Laguna

Andrés Laguna de Segovia (1499–1559) was a Spanish humanist physician, pharmacologist, and botanist.

Luis de LeónW
Luis de León

Luis de León, was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic, active during the Spanish Golden Age.

Rafael LlopisW
Rafael Llopis

Rafael Llopis Paret, Spanish psychiatrist, essayist and translator, specializing in fantasy and horror fiction.

Pedro de MadrazoW
Pedro de Madrazo

Pedro de Madrazo y Kuntz was a Spanish painter, jurist, writer, translator and art critic.

Maria Mercè MarçalW
Maria Mercè Marçal

Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra was a Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain.

Eduardo Mendoza GarrigaW
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist.

Bernardino de MendozaW
Bernardino de Mendoza

Bernardino de Mendoza was a Spanish military commander, a diplomat and a writer on military history and politics.

Carmen Montoriol PuigW
Carmen Montoriol Puig

Carme Monturiol i Puig was a Catalan writer, translator, storyteller, poet, and playwright.

José Moreno VillaW
José Moreno Villa

José Moreno Villa was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was a man of many talents: narrator, essayist, literary critic, artist, painter, columnist, researcher, archivist, librarian and archaeologist. He also taught at universities in the United States and México.

Antonio de NebrijaW
Antonio de Nebrija

Antonio de Nebrija was the most influential Spanish humanist of his era. He wrote poetry, commented on literary works, and encouraged the study of classical languages and literature but his most important contributions were in the fields of grammar and lexicography. Nebrija was the author of the Spanish Grammar and the first dictionary of the Spanish language (1495). His grammar is the first published grammar study of any modern European language. His chief works were published and republished many times during and after his life and his scholarship had a great influence for more than a century, both in Spain and in the expanding Spanish Empire.

Eugenio de OchoaW
Eugenio de Ochoa

Eugenio de Ochoa (1815–72) was a Spanish author, writer, and translator.

Pablo d'OrsW
Pablo d'Ors

Pablo d'Ors is a Spanish priest, theologian and writer. He was born in Madrid; his grandfather was the essayist and art critic Eugenio d'Ors. He was educated in New York, Rome, Prague and Vienna. As a novelist, d'Ors has published half a dozen titles. His debut novel Las ideas puras was nominated for the Premio Herralde.

Isabel Prieto de LandázuriW
Isabel Prieto de Landázuri

Isabel Ángela Prieto González Bango, better known as Isabel Prieto de Landázuri, was a Spanish poet and dramatist, considered "one of the first women to enter the literary canon of Mexico in the 19th century," since this country was where she created most of her literary legacy.

Esther ReginaW
Esther Regina

Esther Regina is a Spanish actress.

Miguel SáenzW
Miguel Sáenz

Miguel Sáenz Sagaseta de Ilúrdoz is a Spanish translator.

Faustina Sáez de MelgarW
Faustina Sáez de Melgar

Faustina Sáez de Melgar, née Faustina Sáez y Soria (1834–1895) was a Spanish writer and journalist. She was mother of the composer and painter Gloria Melgar Sáez.

Pedro SalinasW
Pedro Salinas

Pedro Salinas y Serrano was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University. These were later published under the title Reality and the Poet in Spanish Poetry.

Cristina Sánchez-AndradeW
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade

Cristina Sánchez-Andrade is a Spanish writer and translator of partial English descent. In 2004 she won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her work Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey. Her 2014 novel Las Inviernas was a finalist for the Premio Herralde, and in translation won two English PEN awards.

Félix Torres AmatW
Félix Torres Amat

Félix Torres Amat or Félix Torres i Amat de Palou was a Spanish Bishop. He translated the Bible into vernacular Spanish and published a record of leading authors in Catalan.

Francisco Torres OliverW
Francisco Torres Oliver

The article below was translated from the Spanish Wikipedia Article

Arantxa UrretabizkaiaW
Arantxa Urretabizkaia

Arantxa Urretabizkaia Bejarano, is a contemporary Basque writer, screenwriter and actress. She was born in Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco.

José Ángel ValenteW
José Ángel Valente

José Ángel Valente Docasar was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '50, essayist, translator, who wrote in Spanish and Galician.

Cipriano de ValeraW
Cipriano de Valera

Cipriano de Valera (1531–1602) was a Spanish Protestant Reformer and refugee who edited the first major revision of Casiodoro de Reina's Spanish Bible, which has become known as the Reina-Valera version. Valera also edited an edition of Calvin's Institutes in Spanish, as well as writing and editing several other works.

José C. ValesW
José C. Vales

José C. Vales is a Spanish writer and translator of English literature. He studied in Salamanca and Madrid. He has translated numerous English and American authors into Spanish, including Dickens, Trollope, Austen, Wilkie Collins, Defoe, Mary Shelley, Arnold Bennett, Eudora Welty, Stella Gibbons, E.F. Benson, and Edmund Crispin.

Paco VidarteW
Paco Vidarte

Francisco "Paco" Javier Vidarte Fernández was a Spanish philosopher, writer and LGBT activist.

Montse WatkinsW
Montse Watkins

Montse Watkins was a Spanish translator, fiction writer and essayist, editor and journalist who lived in Japan from 1985 until her passing in 2000. It was in this country that she carried out most of her professional activity. She was a correspondent for Spain’s Efe news agency and Avui daily, and El Mundo newspaper contributor. Watkins was well known for her research on the conditions of the nikkei, descendants of the Japanese diaspora who come to Japan in search of work not knowing the language or the culture. She is considered a pioneer in the direct translation into Spanish of Japanese literature. As an editor and translator, she always chose works by deeply engaged authors such as Kenji Miyazawa, Natsume Sōseki, Osamu Dazai and Toson Shimazaki.