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Kannadasan (1927–1981), Tamil poet, author and lyricist; Jim Kacian (born 1953), US haiku poet and editor; Uuno Kailas (1901–1933), Finnish poet, author and translator; Chester Kallman (1921–1975), US poet, librettist and translator; László Kálnoky (1912–1985), Hungarian poet and translator; Kálmán Kalocsay (1891–1976), Hungarian ...
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1] Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 200 million copies for the Book of Mormon . [ 2 ]
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
Typically, Eliot first published his poems individually in periodicals or in small books or pamphlets and then collected them in books. His first collection was Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). In 1920, he published more poems in Ara Vos Prec (London) and Poems: 1920 (New York). These had the same poems (in a different order) except that ...
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization" [109] novel, short story, essay, translation 2009: Herta Müller (b. 1953) Germany Romania: German "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" [110]