List of most translated individual authors
This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations.
As of August 2017
Rank | Author | Nationality | Original language | Target languages | Ttl. no. of translations |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Agatha Christie | ![]() | English | 103[1] | 7,236[2] |
2 | Jules Verne | ![]() | French | — | 4,751[2] |
3 | William Shakespeare | ![]() | English | — | 4,296[2] |
4 | Enid Blyton | ![]() | English | 90[3] | 3,924[2] |
5 | Barbara Cartland | ![]() | English | 38[4] | 3,652[2] |
6 | Danielle Steel | ![]() | English | 43[5] | 3,628[2] |
7 | Vladimir Lenin | ![]() | Russian | — | 3,593[2] |
8 | Hans Christian Andersen | ![]() | Danish | — | 3,520[2] |
9 | Stephen King | ![]() | English | — | 3,357[2] |
10 | Jacob Grimm | ![]() | German | — | 2,977[2] |
11 | Wilhelm Grimm | ![]() | German | — | 2,951[2] |
12 | Nora Roberts | ![]() | English | — | 2,597[2] |
13 | Alexandre Dumas | ![]() | French | ≈100 | 2,540[2] |
14 | Arthur Conan Doyle | ![]() | English | — | 2,496[2] |
15 | Mark Twain | ![]() | English | — | 2,431[2] |
16 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ![]() | Russian | >170[6] | 2,342[2] |
17 | Georges Simenon | ![]() | French | — | 2,315[2] |
18 | Astrid Lindgren | ![]() | Swedish | 60–95 | 2,271[2] |
19 | Pope John Paul II | ![]() | — | — | 2,258[2] |
20 | René Goscinny | ![]() | French | — | 2,234[2] |
21 | R. L. Stine | ![]() | English | — | 2,222[2] |
22 | Jack London | ![]() | English | — | 2,182[2] |
23 | Leo Tolstoy | ![]() | Russian | — | 2,178[2] |
24 | Isaac Asimov | ![]() | English | — | 2,159[2] |
25 | Charles Dickens | ![]() | English | — | 2,112[2] |
See also
References
- ↑ McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1976). Guinness Book of World Records, 11th U.S. Edition. Bantam Books. p. 704.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 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. 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.
- ↑ Kjetsaa, Geir (1989). Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life. Fawcett Columbine. p. foreword. ISBN 978-0-449-90334-6.
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