Zenòdot
Zenòdot is the largest actively maintained open catalogue of book translations in the world — an independent canonical database of its own, built by correlating more than 50 bibliographic sources. Search any book and find out whether it has been translated into your language — or any other.
It is not a meta-search engine. Searches run against Zenòdot's own database, with its own work and author identities, built by correlating national libraries and union catalogues (the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Japan's National Diet Library, and dozens more, from Belgium to Argentina), Wikidata, ISBNdb, and UNESCO's Index Translationum, incorporated in full as a historical foundation. For the question has this book been translated into this language?, it is the primary reference — and it is deliberately honest about where its coverage ends. No single source holds the whole picture; every database holds something unique, and that gap is exactly what cross-referencing closes.
Current figures — editions, works, languages — are published and dated on zenodot.app/press, and are not repeated here.
Why it exists
There is no global catalogue of translations. UNESCO's Index Translationum, the closest attempt, has not been meaningfully updated since the late 2000s. For smaller languages, a translation that sits in no database is functionally invisible — a form of cultural erasure. Zenòdot exists to reduce that invisibility.
Press
- Lletraferit — «El projecte valencià Zenòdot cartografia les traduccions del món» (23 August 2026)
- Jane Friedman — «Zenòdot update: find works in translation» (5 August 2026)
- Nació Digital — «El català, entre les onze primeres llengües d'un catàleg mundial de 62 milions d'edicions» (17 July 2026)
- The Europeans — «Do you also have a Monstera in your living room?» (14 May 2026)
- À Punt Ràdio — «L'hora de la cultura» (13 April 2026)
- Publishers Lunch — «Small Digital Delights» (11 March 2026)
- Jane Friedman — «Zenòdot: discover a book's translations worldwide» (11 March 2026)
The full list, with access notes, is on the press page.
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