- Index Translationum
The Index Translationum is
UNESCO 's database of booktranslation s. Books have been translated for thousands of years, with no central record of the fact. TheLeague of Nations established a record oftranslation s in 1932. In 1946, theUnited Nations superseded the League and UNESCO was assigned the Index. In 1979, the records were computerized.Since the Index counts translations of individual books, authors with many books with few translations can rank higher than authors with a few books with more translations. So, for example, while the
Bible is the single most translated book in the world, it does not rank in the top ten of the index. The Index counts theWalt Disney Company , employing many writers, as a single writer. Authors with similar names are sometimes included as one entry, for example, the ranking for "Herge" applies not only to the author ofTintin (Hergé ), but also to B.R. Hergehahn, Elisabeth Herget, and Douglas Hergert. Hence, the top authors, as the Index presents them, are from a database query whose results require interpretation.Most translated according to the Index
As of August 2008: [ [http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/stat/xTransStat.a?VL1=A&top=50&lg=0 Index Translationum Statistics ] ]
*Disney Productions
*Agatha Christie
*Jules Verne
*William Shakespeare
*Vladimir Lenin
*Enid Blyton
*Barbara Cartland
*Danielle Steel
*Hans Christian Andersen
*Stephen King The Index ranking is subject to (perhaps unexpected) change, for example, as lately as April 2008, Shakespeare overtook Lenin.
References
External links
* [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Index Translationum]
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