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

• List of literary works by number of translations
• List of best-selling fiction authors
• Index Translationum

References