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]

As of August 2017^[update]

Rank	Author	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]

References

^ "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.