2016
Question
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Name the famous literary translator who has passed away on recently
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Anatoli Grishin
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Gunnar Gran
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Asghar Bichareh
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Gregory Rabassa
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -St Jerome. One of the world’s most famous translators – and certainly one of those whose work had the most influence in shaping the world – was St Jerome (347-420 AD). St Jerome produce the Vulgate, which became the official Catholic translation of the Bible, and which he translated into Latin from Greek and Hebrew.
Detailed explanation-2: -So, as there is no better answer, we can say that the first formal translator whose identity and work is known was Saint Jerome, who translated the Bible from Hebrew & Greek into Vulgar Latin around 400 A.D. Saint Jerome is considered the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists.
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