2012-12-30

World's top translated authors

According to UNESCO's Index Translationum:
1  Christie, Agatha  7135
2  Verne, Jules  4702
3  Shakespeare, William  4159
4  Blyton, Enid  3813
5  Lenin, Vladimir Il'ič  3592
6  Steel, Danielle  3559
7  Cartland, Barbara  3527
8  Andersen, Hans Christian  3394
9  King, Stephen  3220
10  Grimm, Jacob  2873
11  Grimm, Wilhelm  2850
...
(The numbers, I presume, is the total number of translations of these author's works into other languages since ca. 1979).

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