The author of the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Gabriel García Márquez, surpassed his Spanish counterpart, Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, in terms of translating his novels from Spanish into 10 languages. Thus, Marquez has become the largest Spanish-language writer whose novels have been translated during the current century. Cervantes, the author of the novel "Don Quixote", had nothing but consolation that he was the most Spanish writer whose work has been translated into other languages over the past eight decades.
The Instituto de Cervantes, which promotes the Spanish language and culture around the world, used the database of the “Worldcat” website, the Internet library, which includes 554.86 million titles of books published in 483 languages, so that the Spanish Institute could draw a “global translation map”, which allows for more knowledge. Spanish books that have been translated into ten languages; They are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish.
With an inventory of Spanish books that have been translated since 1950, García Márquez and other Spanish writers were; Including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Corathar, they rose to prominence in the world during the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. Raquel Callea, Director of the Culture Division of the Instituto de Cervantes, said that this survey aims to encourage the availability of Spanish literature through translation into various languages.
She added that a survey of Spanish books that were translated into the aforementioned ten languages, during the period from 2000 to 2021, indicates that García Márquez tops the list, followed by Chilean Isabel Allende, then Jorge Luis Yogis, Mario Vargas Llosa, and then de Cervantes. However, a review of the list of books since the 1950s shows de Cervantes in the lead, followed by García Márquez, the Nobel Prize winner for literature, then Allende, Borges, Vargas Llosa, Federico García Lorca, and the poet Pablo Neruda.
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