The translator field
This search field identifies the person(s) responsible for translating a text.
If you are doing an exact-phrase search by first and last name in the translator field, you must enter the name exactly as it appears in the entry: last name, first name (comma included), for example, "Ashbery, John." An alternative would be simply an any-phrase or exact-phrase search for "Ashbery." Names in foreign languages, such as Hungarian or Japanese, that traditionally put the family name before the given name (i.e., Gergely Ágnes) will still include a comma between the two to facilitate searching.
When there are multiple names in the translator field, translators will be listed in the order in which their works appear or are credited in the publication, except that Ashbery will always be listed after other translators in order to facilitate alphabetization of the others' names when sorting results by the translator field.
You may not be able to search for a translator whose name contains accent marks without using accent marks in your search. Searching without accent marks for names with accent marks should work for the major European languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German. For some names in Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, etc., you must search for the exact name, including foreign characters and accent marks, in order to obtain results. Because the number of results for those languages is relatively small, we suggest that you search by Type: translation, and the particular language, rather than by the translator's name.
Non-Latin alphabets for languages such as Greek, Russian, Japanese, or Sanskrit are not usually used in the catalogue — Latin-character transliterations of names in those languages will be given when possible.
In the case of a collection of translations by one or two translators only, the translator(s) will be listed with the general editor(s) or original author(s) in the author/editor field, as well as in the translator field. In the case of translations by three or more translators, the translators will only be listed in the translator field.
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