With the exception of graphomaniac marvels like John Grisham, Danielle Steele, or Stephen King, authors don’t generally publish three books in four years. Rebecca Makkai did it in the early 2010s (though she doesn’t want credit for it). Rick Moody and Anne Carson did it in the 1990s. And I’m sure others have too, although they didn’t show up in the Google search that returned the names listed above. It would theoretically be more feasible for authors to have multiple books appear in translation in rapid succession. After all, the books have almost always already been published in their original language, and thus can be acquired, translated, and published—an unquestionably time-consuming process—on whatever schedule is desired.
