Sentence examples for gifted translator from inspiring English sources

A gifted translator, Sibley produced numerous other translations of modern Japanese literature, especially those of short stories and essays.

Ann Goldstein, a very gifted translator, has performed an act of kindness here.

Aitken was a gifted translator, too, enjoying the flexibility of the autodidact.

(Endnotes provided by the collection's gifted translator, Linda Coverdale, offer informative points of reference, and the pieces themselves, all of which were written on request, offer a window into Echenoz's unique way of looking at the world).

To Ruebsamen's credit -- and that of the novel's gifted translator, Paul Vincent -- Lulu's perspective is fresh, credible and distinctly drawn, sustained by prose that is at once luminous and dark.

Nor is Weis a gifted translator: "Jeanne scoffed, 'Ha, you old heretical cowherdess, you need a solid squeezing, since you're brimful of heresy!' " He is also aggressively, anachronistically judgmental.

Fortunately, Neruda's best work has attracted his most gifted translators.

I never knew the gifted poet, translator, essayist, and longtime denizen of Harvard.

Eco's gifted English translator, William Weaver, built an extension on to his Tuscan home with the proceeds (which he called the Eco chamber).

Writing last year in The Nation, Natasha Wimmer, the gifted young translator of Roberto Bolaño's major novels into English, described the rivalry between the Portuguese novelists José Saramago and António Lobo Antunes.

In the preface to SHIFU, YOU'LL DO ANYTHING FOR A LAUGH (Arcade, $23.95), a compact collection of stories selected by his gifted longtime translator Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan, the author of "Red Sorghum," reflects on his difficult childhood and recalls feasting with his classmates on a load of coal dumped outside their school.