Portuguese poet, and translator as well as politician and administrator for the arts. He has a degree in law but turned to writing as his…
Ennio Morricone: A Maestro’s Legacy Intertwined with Human Design Ennio Morricone, an iconic Italian musician, composer, and arranger, is celebrated for his prolific contributions to…
Dutch poet, essayist, translator and critic. His parents were prude Calvinists in Velsen, but the French teacher Adriaan Morriën wrote rather shameless about human sexuality.…
Norwegian Classical philologist, translator, and professor at the University of Oslo 1948-1973. Mørland died on 22 August 1989 in Oslo, Norway, aged 86. Link to…
Belgian physicist, writer, translator, astrologer, photographer and computer programmer. He studied physics at the universities of Antwerp and Gent. Since he discovered that many interesting…
French writer and Renaissance man, the author of “Essais,” 1595, translator of “The Natural World” and “Apologie de Ramon Sebond,” 1569 and “Journal De Voyage,”…
Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. Montale was the youngest of six sons. He was…
French bookseller, writer, and publisher, and an influential figure in the modernist writing scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Monnier and expatriate bookseller…
French novelist, poet, essayist, columnist, translator. Miomandre was a prolific writer. In 1908 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel “Écrit sur de l’eau”.…
Domingo Miral y López: A Scholar Bridging Cultures Domingo Miral y López was born on February 18, 1872, in Huesca, Spain. A prominent Spanish scholar,…
Dutch writer Marga Minco is the pseudonym of Sara Menco, a Dutch writer who lost her Jewish family during the war. Books like “Het bittere…
German foreign correspondence clerk, media scientist, journalist and astrologer, the coworker of “Astrologiezentrum Berlin.” She was a translator of astrological books whose main interests focused…
French poet, linguist, essayist and translator. He’s remembered today as both a theoretician of language and as a translator of the Old Testament. The 710-page…
Turkish writer, translator and philosopher who researched and wrote articles in many fields of the social sciences, especially language, history, literature, philosophy and sociology. He…
Walter Mehring: A Pioneering Satirical Voice of the Weimar Republic Walter Mehring, born on April 29, 1896, in Berlin, Germany, was a seminal German writer…
Swiss writer and translator. Meier studied literature, history of art and philosophy at the universities of Basel, Vienna, Paris and Fribourg. Since 1955, Meier has…
Brazilian poet, writer, novelist, essayist, translator and songwriter. In 1999, with Jorge Schwartz, he won the Jabuti Prize for his translation of the inaugural work…
British occultist, astrologer, author and translator; the founder of the mystical organization The Golden Dawn. Mathers met Moina Bergson in the British Museum where she…
American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language. Mathews invented the…
Slovakian-American astrologer, a proponent of the methods of Morin de Villefranche (Morinus) and translator of Morin’s Book XXI into English. Mason was the middle of…
French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He has also worked as a translator, translating the works…
Mexican journalist, poet, writer, translator and academic. He specialized in handicrafts and folk cultures of Mexico, of which he was a persistent national and international…
Dutch writer, poet,translator and autobiographer. His father Arie Marsman 2 February 1861, Utrecht) had a bookshop. His mother was Johanna Hendrika Wormgoor 1 January 1865,…
German translator and resistance fighter against National Socialism (Nazism) who married the communist writer Hans Marchwitza. After marrying Rudolf Schottlaender in September 1922, Hilde Schottlaender…
German writer, translator and publisher and above all well-known chirologist. She studied Protestant theology and received her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg in 1928.…
English actor, designer, writer, journalist, translator and biographer. He died on 9 February 1975, aged 88, in Seaford, Sussex, Link to Wikipedia biography
German pharmacologist and physiologist who discovered the diuretic effect of the excretions of the pituitary gland. His best known book Körperstellung (“Posture”), a study of…
Polish sociologist, social anthropologist, author of the book ‘Will psychedelics save the world?’ (Wydawnictwo Krytyki Polityczna, 2019). Translator of many books on psychedelic culture, including…
Jac. van Looy: The Multifaceted Dutch Genius Jacobus van Looy, commonly known as Jac. van Looy, was a celebrated Dutch writer, poet, painter, and translator,…
Polish writer, translator, literary critic, and theater director. He graduated from Warsaw University and received his PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is…
American poet and screenwriter known as a lover of famous writer Frank O’Hara and as the author of the book Digressions on Some Poems by…
French poet, translator and editor. In 1938, he published his first plaquette of poems, “Le voyage immobile”, and launched the review “Messages” in 1939. Jean…
Italian writer and translator from a noted family, she was the sister of the poet, scholar, and philosopher, Giacomo Leopardi. She wrote several translations from…
Spanish feminist writer, dramatist, translator, and politician. She was sometimes known as María Martínez Sierra. She died 28 June 1974. Link to Wikipedia biography
French naval officer and inventor. As an officer he served in Asia. He studied Japanese and became sufficiently proficient to be promoted to military attaché…
Breton literature professor, folklore collector and translator called the Bard of Brittany. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for…
Canadian pro Vedic astrologer and Sanskrit translator. He published several philosophy books and short stories on Eastern Culture.
Italian philologist, translator, author and expert on Greek and Byzantine literature. He died in Palermo on 20 March 1992, aged 93. Link to Wikipedia biography…
Dutch poet, writer, translator and cosmopolitan known as a socially compassionate man. He had a Catholic background. However, he was a very young member of…
Norwegian journalist, writer, and translator. He worked at the newspaper Dagbladet from 1923 to 1958, where he was news editor from 1930 and became editor-in-chief…
French writer, editor, and translator, whose works include film scripts, her memoir “Les Cabines de bain” (“The Bathing Huts”, 1982), and biographies of Edith Piaf…
German-American stage and film actress, writer and socialite, the daughter of engineer Edward Levy and opera singer Else Landshoff. She came from a middle class…
French translator and author, and the second daughter of famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and his first wife, Marie-Louise Blondin. As well as being an English,…
French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.…
Finnish poet, children’s literature author and translator into Finnish. Her extensive oeuvre consists of poems, fairy tale books, drama, translations (e.g. Lewis Carroll, Federico García…
Polish ornithologist, explorer, founder and head of the Asylum for the Birds in the Warsaw zoo, director of the zoo from 1 January 2009, author…
German doctor at the Charité medical school in Berlin, who, in 1913, became the first woman in the Kingdom of Prussia to be appointed a…
Brenda Hillman: A Luminary in Poetry and Human Design Brenda Hillman is an esteemed American poet and translator, celebrated for her profound contributions to contemporary…
Dutch writer and translator of children’s books, political activist and the first spouse of Pieter Jelles Troelstra. Her birthname was Sjoukje Maria Diderika Bokma de…
German writer and translator who co-produced a German translation of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu with Walter Benjamin. Hessel’s parents, Fanny and…