List of most translated individual authors

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

Rank

Author

Nationality

Original language

Target languages

Ttl. no. of translations

1

Agatha Christie

English

103

7,236

2

Jules Verne
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French

4,751

3

William Shakespeare
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English

4,296

4

Enid Blyton

English

90

3,924

5

Barbara Cartland

English

38

3,652

6

Danielle Steel

English

43

3,628

7

Vladimir Lenin

Russian

3,593

8

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish

3,520

9

Stephen King

English

3,357

10

Jacob Grimm
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German

2,977

11

Wilhelm Grimm
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German

2,951

12

Nora Roberts

English

2,597

13

Alexandre Dumas

French

≈100

2,540

14

Arthur Conan Doyle

English

2,496

15

Mark Twain

English

s

2,431

16

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Russian

>170

2,342

17

Georges Simenon

2,315

18

Astrid Lindgren

Swedish

60–95

2,271

19

Pope John Paul II
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2,258

20

René Goscinny

French

2,234

21

R. L. Stine

English

2,222

22

Jack London

English

2,182

23

Leo Tolstoy
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Russian

2,178

24

Isaac Asimov

English

2,159

25

Charles Dickens

English

2,112

See also

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