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	Nationality	Original language	Target languages	Ttl. 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]