List of most translated individual authors
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This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations.[1]
As of August 2017[update]
| Rank | Author | Nationality | Original language | Target languages | Total no. of translations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agatha Christie |  |
English | 103[2] | 7,236[3] |
| 2 | Jules Verne |  |
French | — | 4,751[3] |
| 3 | William Shakespeare |  |
English | — | 4,296[3] |
| 4 | Enid Blyton | |
English | 90[4] | 3,924[3] |
| 5 | Barbara Cartland | |
English | 38[5] | 3,652[3] |
| 6 | Danielle Steel |  |
English | 43[6] | 3,628[3] |
| 7 | Vladimir Lenin |  |
Russian | — | 3,593[3] |
| 8 | Hans Christian Andersen |  |
Danish | — | 3,520[3] |
| 9 | Stephen King | |
English | — | 3,357[3] |
| 10 | Philipp Winterberg |  |
German | 160[7] | 3,329[8] |
| 11 | Jacob Grimm |  |
German | — | 2,977[3] |
| 12 | Wilhelm Grimm | |
German | — | 2,951[3] |
| 13 | Nora Roberts | |
English | — | 2,597[3] |
| 14 | Alexandre Dumas | |
French | 100 | 2,540[3] |
| 15 | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
English | — | 2,496[3] |
| 16 | Mark Twain | |
English | — | 2,431[3] |
| 17 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |  |
Russian | 170[9] | 2,342[3] |
| 18 | Georges Simenon |  |
French | — | 2,315[3] |
| 19 | Astrid Lindgren |  |
Swedish | 60–95 | 2,271[3] |
| 20 | Pope John Paul II |  |
— | — | 2,258[3] |
| 21 | René Goscinny | |
French | — | 2,234[3] |
| 22 | R. L. Stine | |
English | — | 2,222[3] |
| 23 | Jack London | |
English | — | 2,182[3] |
| 24 | Leo Tolstoy | |
Russian | — | 2,178[3] |
| 25 | Isaac Asimov | |
English | — | 2,159[3] |
| 26 | Charles Dickens | |
English | — | 2,112[3] |
See also
[edit]- List of literary works by number of translations
- List of best-selling fiction authors
- Index Translationum
References
[edit]- ^ "The Top 10 Most Translated Authors of All Time". Ulatus.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020.
- ^ McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1976). Guinness Book of World Records, 11th U.S. Edition. Bantam Books. p. 704.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y UNESCO Statistics. "Index Translationum - "TOP 50000" Author". Official website of UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ Clark, Nick (27 March 2012). "Seven go on a 21-century adventure: Enid Blyton classics to be rewritten". The Independent. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
Blyton's works have been translated into 90 languages.
- ^ McCorquodale, Ian (2017). "Welcome to the romantic world of Barbara Cartland". BarbaraCartland.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
During her long career, my mother, Barbara Cartland wrote an incredible 723 books, which were translated into 38 languages, making her the most prolific author of the 20th Century.
- ^ "About Danielle Steel". Official website of Danielle Steel. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
She is published in 69 countries and 43 languages.
- ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de.
- ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de.
- ^ Kjetsaa, Geir (1989). Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life. Fawcett Columbine. p. foreword. ISBN 978-0-449-90334-6.