Emmy Destinn
Czech operatic soprano
Czech operatic soprano
Aboriginal Australian translator and missionary
Italian author, art scholar, cinema critic, and translator
Mexican academic, researcher and translator
Spanish-Mexican lawyer, writer, researcher and translator.
American anthropologist and the second female officer to join the US Marine Corps, commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1943.
Poet and activist Violet Kazue Yamane Matsuda de Cristoforo (1917-2007) wrote, translated, and compiled Japanese language haiku poetry composed by Japanese immigrants and Kibei.
Mari Sabusawa Michener (1920–94) was a Japanese American activist and philanthropist.
Wanda Gág was determined to be an artist from an early age, and ultimately she succeeded. Her talent steered her through family hardship and hesitant early artistic efforts until she created Millions of Cats, her 1928 children’s book. It has never been out of print.
Irish novelist, translator, and composer