Index Translationum

Index Translationum

The Index Translationum is UNESCO's database of book translations. Books have been translated for thousands of years, with no central record of the fact. The League of Nations established a record of translations in 1932. In 1946, the United Nations superseded the League and UNESCO was assigned the Index.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 the Walt 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 of Tintin (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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