List of most translated individual authors

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This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations.{{cite web|url=https://www.ulatus.com/translation-blog/most-translated-author/|title=The Top 10 Most Translated Authors of All Time|website=Ulatus.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429055131/https://www.ulatus.com/translation-blog/most-translated-author/|archive-date=29 April 2020|url-status=dead}}

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style="background-color: #eedd82"|Rank !Author !Nationality !Original language !Target languages !Total no. of translations
_row_count	Agatha Christie	{{flagicon|UK}}	English	103{{cite book|last1=McWhirter|first1=Norris|last2=McWhirter|first2=Ross|date=1976|title=Guinness Book of World Records, 11th U.S. Edition|publisher=Bantam Books|page=704}}	7,236{{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsstatexp.aspx?crit1L=5&nTyp=min&topN=50000 |title=Index Translationum - "TOP 50000" Author |publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |author=UNESCO Statistics |work=Official website of UNESCO |access-date=11 August 2017 }}
_row_count	Jules Verne	File:Flag of France.svg	French	{{n/a|—}}	4,751
_row_count	William Shakespeare	File:Flag of England.svg	English	{{n/a|—}}	4,296
_row_count	Enid Blyton	{{flagicon|UK}}	English	90{{cite web |title=Seven go on a 21-century adventure: Enid Blyton classics to be rewritten |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/seven-go-on-a-21st-century-adventure-enid-blyton-classics-to-be-rewritten-7593596.html |last=Clark |first=Nick |work=The Independent |date=27 March 2012 |access-date=12 August 2017 |quote=Blyton's works have been translated into 90 languages. }}	3,924
_row_count	Barbara Cartland	{{flagicon|UK}}	English	38{{cite web |url=http://www.barbaracartland.com/static/home.aspx?from=2 |website=BarbaraCartland.com |title=Welcome to the romantic world of Barbara Cartland. |first=Ian |last=McCorquodale |date=2017 |access-date=12 August 2017 |quote=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. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812141454/http://www.barbaracartland.com/static/home.aspx?from=2 |archive-date=12 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}	3,652
_row_count	Danielle Steel	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	43{{cite web |url=http://daniellesteel.com/about-danielle/ |title=About Danielle Steel |work=Official website of Danielle Steel |access-date=12 August 2017 |quote=She is published in 69 countries and 43 languages. }}	3,628
_row_count	Vladimir Lenin	File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1924).svg	Russian	{{n/a|—}}	3,383
_row_count	Hans Christian Andersen	{{flagicon|DEN}}	Danish	{{n/a|—}}	3,520
_row_count	Stephen King	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	3,357
_row_count	Philipp Winterberg	{{flagicon|Germany}}	German	160{{Cite web|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D1210933306|title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|website=portal.dnb.de}}	3,329{{Cite web|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D1180407482|title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|website=portal.dnb.de}}
_row_count	Jacob Grimm	File:War ensign of the German Empire Navy 1848-1852.svg	German	{{n/a|—}}	2,977
_row_count	Wilhelm Grimm	File:War ensign of the German Empire Navy 1848-1852.svg	German	{{n/a|—}}	2,951
_row_count	Nora Roberts	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	2,597
_row_count	Alexandre Dumas	{{flagicon|FRA}}	French	100	2,540
_row_count	Arthur Conan Doyle	{{flagicon|UK}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	2,496
_row_count	Mark Twain	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	s{{n/a|—}}	2,431
_row_count	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	File:Flag of Russia.svg	Russian	170{{cite book|last=Kjetsaa|first=Geir|authorlink=Geir Kjetsaa|title=Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Writer's Life|year=1989|publisher=Fawcett Columbine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lzWAAAAMAAJ|isbn=978-0-449-90334-6|page=foreword}}	2,342
_row_count	Georges Simenon	{{flagicon|BEL}}	French	{{n/a|—}}	2,315
_row_count	Astrid Lindgren	{{flagicon|SWE}}	Swedish	60–95	2,271
_row_count	Pope John Paul II	File:Flag of Poland.svg	{{n/a|—}}	{{n/a|—}}	2,258
_row_count	René Goscinny	{{flagicon|FRA}}	French	{{n/a|—}}	2,234
_row_count	R. L. Stine	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	2,222
_row_count	Jack London	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	2,182
_row_count	Leo Tolstoy	File:Flag of Russia.svg	Russian	{{n/a|—}}	2,178
_row_count	Isaac Asimov	{{flagicon|USA}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	2,159
_row_count	Charles Dickens	{{flagicon|UK}}	English	{{n/a|—}}	2,112

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