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

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As of August 2017

Rank	Author	Nationality	Original language	Target languages	Total no. of translations
1	Agatha Christie		English	103	7,236
2	Jules Verne		French	—	4,751
3	William Shakespeare		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	Philipp Winterberg		German	160	3,329
11	Jacob Grimm		German	—	2,977
12	Wilhelm Grimm		German	—	2,951
13	Nora Roberts		English	—	2,597
14	Alexandre Dumas		French	100	2,540
15	Arthur Conan Doyle		English	—	2,496
16	Mark Twain		English	—	2,431
17	Fyodor Dostoyevsky		Russian	170	2,342
18	Georges Simenon		French	—	2,315
19	Astrid Lindgren		Swedish	60–95	2,271
20	Pope John Paul II		—	—	2,258
21	René Goscinny		French	—	2,234
22	R. L. Stine		English	—	2,222
23	Jack London		English	—	2,182
24	Leo Tolstoy		Russian	—	2,178
25	Isaac Asimov		English	—	2,159
26	Charles Dickens		English	—	2,112

See also※

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

References※