List of most translated individual authors

This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations.^[1]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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

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

References

1. "The Top 10 Most Translated Authors of All Time". Ulatus.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020.
2. McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1976). Guinness Book of World Records, 11th U.S. Edition. Bantam Books. p. 704.
3. UNESCO Statistics. "Index Translationum - "TOP 50000" Author". Official website of UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Retrieved 11 August 2017.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. "About Danielle Steel". Official website of Danielle Steel. Retrieved 12 August 2017. She is published in 69 countries and 43 languages.
7. "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de.
8. "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de.
9. Kjetsaa, Geir (1989). Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life. Fawcett Columbine. p. foreword. ISBN 978-0-449-90334-6.