UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) maintains a list of the world’s most-translated authors. The current top 10, with works that have been translated from and into English and hundreds of other languages and dialects, are:
- Agatha Christie
- Jules Verne
- William Shakespeare
- Vladimir Lenin
- Enid Blyton
- Barbara Cartland
- Danielle Steel
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Stephen King
- Brothers Grimm
(Source: National Geographic)
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