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Famous Translators and Interpreters.

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57 celebrated translators who bridged languages and cultures. Literary interpreters who brought foreign masterpieces to new readers.

George Eliot

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George Eliot

United Kingdom

George Eliot, born Mary Anne Evans in 1819, published her first novel Adam Bede at age 40. Martin Amis and Julian Barnes have called her novel Middlemarch the greatest English novel. She lived with George Lewes for 23 years and died in 1880 from kidney disease.

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1750 1960