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Profiles of Literary Translators

Test your knowledge of famous literary translators and the authors whose works they translated into different languages.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for his translations of the works of Jorge Luis Borges?

  1. Gregory Rabassa
  2. Edith Grossman
  3. Haruki Murakami
  4. Jhumpa Lahiri
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of Franz Kafka into English?

  1. Edwin Muir
  2. Willa Muir
  3. Max Brod
  4. Elias Canetti
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for her translations of the works of Gabriel García Márquez?

  1. Gregory Rabassa
  2. Edith Grossman
  3. Haruki Murakami
  4. Jhumpa Lahiri
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky into English?

  1. Constance Garnett
  2. David Magarshack
  3. Joseph Frank
  4. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for his translations of the works of Marcel Proust?

  1. C. K. Scott Moncrieff
  2. Terence Kilmartin
  3. Lydia Davis
  4. Richard Howard
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of James Joyce into French?

  1. Samuel Beckett
  2. Maurice Nadeau
  3. Jacques Aubert
  4. Philippe Sollers
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for her translations of the works of Italo Calvino?

  1. William Weaver
  2. Archibald Colquhoun
  3. Helen Lane
  4. Tim Parks
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of Milan Kundera into English?

  1. Michael Henry Heim
  2. Philip Roth
  3. Ivan Klíma
  4. Jáchym Topol
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for his translations of the works of Haruki Murakami?

  1. Jay Rubin
  2. Philip Gabriel
  3. Ted Goossen
  4. Alfred Birnbaum
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of J. R. R. Tolkien into Spanish?

  1. Luis Domènech
  2. Manuel Figueroa
  3. Francisco Porrúa
  4. Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for his translations of the works of Umberto Eco?

  1. William Weaver
  2. Richard Dixon
  3. Alastair McEwen
  4. Michael Caesar
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of Salman Rushdie into Hindi?

  1. Gita Mehta
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Amitav Ghosh
  4. Arundhati Roy
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for his translations of the works of Orhan Pamuk?

  1. Elif Shafak
  2. Maureen Freely
  3. Robert Finn
  4. Talat Sait Halman
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who translated the works of José Saramago into English?

  1. Margaret Jull Costa
  2. Giovanni Pontiero
  3. Richard Zenith
  4. Frederico Lourenço
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which literary translator is known for his translations of the works of Haruki Murakami?

  1. Jay Rubin
  2. Philip Gabriel
  3. Ted Goossen
  4. Alfred Birnbaum
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