It’s Fun to Know: The World’s Most-Translated Authors

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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