Editing Fairy tale (section)

==Compilations==
{{See also|:Category:Collections of fairy tales|l1=Collections of fairy tales}}

'''Authors and works:'''

===From many countries===
* García Carcedo, Pilar (2020): ''Entre brujas y dragones. Travesía comparativa por los cuentos tradicionales del mundo''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u70OEAAAQBAJ Estudio comparativo y antología de cuentos tradicionales del mundo]</ref>
* [[Andrew Lang]]'s [[Lang's Fairy Books|Color Fairy Books]] (1890–1913)
* [[Wolfram Eberhard]] (1909–1989)
* [[Howard Pyle]]'s ''The Wonder Clock''
* [[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] ([[Wales]], 1886–1988)
* ''[[World Tales]]'' (United Kingdom, 1979) by [[Idries Shah]]
* [[Richard Dorson]] (1916–1981)
* ''The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales'' (United States, 2002) by [[Maria Tatar]]
* The Christian Bible
* The Quran

===Italy===
* ''[[Pentamerone]]'' (Italy, 1634–1636) by [[Giambattista Basile]]
* [[Giovanni Francesco Straparola]] (Italy, 16th century)
* [[Giuseppe Pitrè]], Italian collector of folktales from his native [[Sicily]] (Italy, 1841–1916)
* [[Laura Gonzenbach]], Swiss collector of Sicilian folk tales ([[Switzerland]], 1842–1878)
* [[Domenico Comparetti]], Italian scholar (Italy, 1835–1927)
* [[Thomas Frederick Crane]], American lawyer (United States, 1844–1927)
* [[Emma Perodi]], Italian writer, author of the [[Casentino|Casentinian]] folk tales (Italy, 1850–1918)
* [[Luigi Capuana]], Italian author of literary ''fiabe''
* ''[[Italian Folktales]]'' (Italy, 1956) by [[Italo Calvino]]

===France===
* [[Charles Perrault]] (France, 1628–1703)
* [[Eustache Le Noble]], French writer of literary fairy tales (France, 1646–1711)
* [[Madame d'Aulnoy]] (France, 1650–1705)
* [[Emmanuel Cosquin]], French collector of Lorraine fairy tales and one of the earliest tale comparativists (France, 1841–1919)
* [[Paul Sébillot]], collector of folktales from [[Brittany]], France (France, 1843–1918)
* [[François-Marie Luzel]], French collector of Brittany folktales (France, 1821–1895)
* [[Charles Deulin]], French author and folklorist (France, 1827–1877)
* [[Édouard René de Laboulaye]], French jurist, poet and publisher of folk tales and literary fairy tales 
* [[Henri Pourrat]], French collector of Auvergne folklore (1887–1959)
* [[Achille Millien]], collector of Nivernais folklore (France, 1838–1927)
* [[Paul Delarue]], establisher of the French folktale catalogue (France, 1889–1956)

===Germany===
* ''[[Grimms' Fairy Tales]]'' (Germany, 1812–1857)
* [[Johann Karl August Musäus]], German writer of ''[[Volksmärchen der Deutschen]]'' (5 volumes; 1782–1786)
* [[Wilhelm Hauff]], German author and novelist
* [[Heinrich Pröhle]], collector of Germanic language folktales
* [[Franz Xaver von Schönwerth]] (Germany, 1810–1886)
* [[Adalbert Kuhn]], German philologist and folklorist (Germany, 1812–1881)
* {{ill|Alfred Cammann|de}} (1909–2008), 20th century collector of fairy tales

===Belgium===
* [[Charles Polydore de Mont]] (Pol de Mont) ([[Belgium]], 1857–1931)

===United Kingdom and Ireland===
* [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s two books of ''Celtic Fairytales'' and two books of ''English Folktales'' (1854–1916)
* ''Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales'' (United Kingdom, 1984) by [[Alan Garner]]
* ''Old English fairy tales'' by Reverend [[Sabine Baring-Gould]] (1895)
* ''[[Popular Tales of the West Highlands]]'' ([[Scotland]], 1862) by [[John Francis Campbell]]
* [[Jeremiah Curtin]], collector of Irish folktales and translator of Slavic fairy tales (Ireland, 1835–1906)
* [[Patrick Kennedy (folklorist)|Patrick Kennedy]], Irish educator and folklorist (Ireland, ca. 1801–1873)
* [[Séamus Ó Duilearga]], Irish folklorist (Ireland, 1899–1980)
* [[Kevin Danaher]], Irish folklorist (Ireland, 1913-2002) ''Folktales from the Irish Countryside''
* [[W. B. Yeats]], Irish poet and publisher of Irish folktales
* ''[[Peter and the Piskies]]: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales'' (United Kingdom, 1958), by [[Ruth Manning-Sanders]]

===Scandinavia===
* [[Hans Christian Andersen]], Danish author of literary fairy tales ([[Denmark]], 1805–1875)
* [[Helena Nyblom]], Swedish author of literary fairy tales (Sweden, 1843–1926)
* ''[[Norwegian Folktales]]'' ([[Norway]], 1845–1870) by [[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]] and [[Jørgen Moe]]
* ''Svenska folksagor och äfventyr'' (Sweden, 1844–1849) by [[Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius]]
* [[August Bondeson]], collector of Swedish folktales (1854–1906)
* ''Jyske Folkeminder'' by [[Evald Tang Kristensen]] ([[Denmark]], 1843–1929)
* [[Svend Grundtvig]], Danish folktale collector ([[Denmark]], 1824–1883)
* [[Benjamin Thorpe]], English scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature and translator of Nordic and Scandinavian folktales (1782–1870)
* [[Jón Árnason (author)|Jón Árnason]], collector of Icelandic folklore
* [[Adeline Rittershaus]], German philologist and translator of Icelandic folktales

===Estonia, Finland and Baltic Region===
* ''Suomen kansan satuja ja tarinoita'' ([[Finland]], 1852–1866) by {{interlanguage link|Eero Salmelainen|sv|Erik Rudbeck}}
* [[August Leskien]], German linguist and collector of Baltic folklore (1840–1916)
* [[William Forsell Kirby]], English translator of Finnish folklore and folktales (1844–1912)
* [[Jonas Basanavičius]], collector of Lithuanian folklore (1851–1927)
* [[Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis]], collector of Lithuanian folklore (1849–1919)
* {{ill|Pēteris Šmits|lv}}, Latvian ethnographer (1869–1938)

===Russia===
{{See also|Russian Fairy Tales (disambiguation)}}
* ''[[Narodnye russkie skazki]]'' (Russia, 1855–1863) by [[Alexander Afanasyev]]

===Czech Republic and Slovakia===
* [[Božena Němcová]], writer and collector of Czech fairy tales (1820–1862)
* {{ill|Alfred Waldau|cs|Alfred Waldau}}, editor and translator of Czech fairy tales
* {{ill|Jan Karel Hraše|cs|Jan Karel Hraše}}, writer and publisher of Czech fairy tales
* {{ill|František Lazecký|cs|František Lazecký}}, publisher of [[Silesia]]n fairy tales (''Slezské pohádky'') (1975–1977)
* [[Karel Jaromír Erben]], poet, folklorist and publisher of Czech folktales (1811–1870)
* [[August Horislav Škultéty]], Slovak writer (1819–1895)
* [[Pavol Dobšinský]], collector of [[Slovakia|Slovak]] folktales (1828–1885)
* [[Albert Wratislaw]], collector of Slavic folktales

===Ukraine===
* [[Ivan Franko]], Ukrainian poet, novelist, playwright, creator of many Ukrainian folk and fairy tales (1856–1916) 
* [[Yevhen Hrebinka]], Ukrainian romantic prose writer and philanthropist, collector of numerous Ukrainian folktales and proverbs (1812–1848)
* [[Mykhailo Maksymovych]], Ukrainian professor, encyclopedist, folklorist and ethnographer (1804–1873)
* [[Levko Borovykovsky]], Ukrainian romantic poet, folklorist and ethnographer, recorder of Ukrainian legends and fairy tales (1806–1889)
* {{ill|Petro Hulak-Artemovsky|uk|Гулак-Артемовський Петро Петрович}}, Ukrainian poet and fable writer, including fable-tales (1790–1865)
* [[Osip Bodyansky|Osyp Bodyanskyi]], Ukrainian philologist and folklorist, collector of Ukrainian fairy tales (1808-1877)
===Poland===
* [[Oskar Kolberg]], Polish ethnographer and composer who compiled several Polish folk and fairy tales (1814–1890)
* [[Zygmunt Gloger]], Polish historian and ethnographer (1845–1910)
* [[Bolesław Leśmian]], Polish poet (1877–1937)
* [[Kornel Makuszyński]], Polish writer of children's literature and tales (1884–1953) 

===Romania===
{{See also|List of Romanian fairy tales}}
* ''[[Legende sau basmele românilor]]'' ([[Romania]], 1874) by [[Petre Ispirescu]]
* Queen [[Elisabeth of Wied]]'s Romanian fairy tales, penned under nom de plume ''Carmen Sylva''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sylva |first=Carmen |title=Legends from river & mountain |location=London |publisher=George Allen |date=1896 |pages=1–148 |chapter=Tales nr. 1-10}}</ref>
* [[Arthur Carl Victor Schott|Arthur]] (1814-1875) and Albert Schott (1809-1847), German folklorists and collectors of Romanian fairy tales
* {{interlanguage link|I. C. Fundescu|ro}} (1836–1904)
* [[Ion Creangă]], Moldavian/Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher (1837-1889) 
* [[Ioan Slavici]], Romanian writer and journalist (1848–1925)
* [[G. Dem. Teodorescu]], Wallachian/Romanian folklorist (1849–1900)
* {{interlanguage link|Ion Pop-Reteganul|ro}}, Romanian folklorist (1853–1905)
* [[Lazăr Șăineanu]], Romanian folklorist (1859–1934)
* {{interlanguage link|Dumitru Stăncescu|ro}}, Romanian folklorist (1866–1899)

===Balkan Area and Eastern Europe===
* [[Louis Léger]], French translator of Slavic fairy tales (France, 1843–1923)
* [[Johann Georg von Hahn]], Austrian diplomat and collector of Albanian and Greek folklore (1811–1869)
* [[Auguste Dozon]], French scholar and diplomat who studied Albanian folklore (1822–1890)
* [[Robert Elsie]], Canadian-born German Albanologist (Canada, 1950–2017)
* [[Donat Kurti]], Albanian franciscan friar, educator, scholar and folklorist (1903–1983)
* [[Anton Çetta]], Albanian folklorist, academic and university professor from Yugoslavia (1920–1995)
* [[Lucy Garnett]], British traveller and folklorist on Turkey and Balkanic folklore (1849–1934)
* [[Francis Hindes Groome]], English scholar of [[Romani populations]] (England, 1851–1902)
* [[Vuk Karadžić]], Serbian philologist ([[Serbia]], 1787–1864)
* [[Elodie Lawton]], British writer and translator of Serbian folktales (1825–1908)
* [[Friedrich Salomon Krauss]], collector of South Slavic folklore
* {{ill|Gašper Križnik|sl|Gašper Križnik}} (1848–1904), collector of Slovenian folktales

===Hungary===
* [[Elek Benedek]], Hungarian journalist and collector of Hungarian folktales
* [[János Erdélyi]], poet, critic, author, philosopher who collected Hungarian folktales
* [[Gyula Pap (ethnographer)|Gyula Pap]], ethographer who contributed to the collection ''Folk-tales of the Magyars''
* ''The Hungarian Fairy Book'', by Nándor Pogány (1913).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Pogány |first1=Nándor |first2=Willy |last2=Pogány |title=The Hungarian Fairy Book |location=New York |publisher=F. A. Stokes Co. |date=1913}}</ref>
* ''[[Old Hungarian Fairy Tales]]'' (1895), by Countess [[Emma Orczy]] and Montague Barstow.

===Spain and Portugal===
* [[Fernán Caballero]] (Cecilia Böhl de Faber) (Spain, 1796–1877)
* [[Francisco Maspons y Labrós]] (Spain, 1840–1901)
* [[Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda]], priest, writer and collector of folktales in [[Catalan language|Catalan]] from [[Mallorca]] (1862–1932)
* {{ill|Julio Camarena|es|Julio Camarena Laucirica}}, Spanish folklorist (1949–2004)
* [[Teófilo Braga]], collector of Portuguese folktales ([[Portugal]], 1843–1924)
* [[Zófimo Consiglieri Pedroso]], Portuguese folklorist (Portugal, 1851–1910)
* [[Wentworth Webster]], collector of Basque folklore
* [[Elsie Spicer Eells]], researcher on Iberian folklore (Portuguese and Brazilian)

===Armenia===
* [[Garegin Srvandztiants|Karekin Servantsians]] (Garegin Sruandzteants'; Bishop Sirwantzdiants), ethnologue and clergyman; publisher of ''Hamov-Hotov'' (1884)
* [[Hovhannes Tumanyan]], Armenian poet and writer who reworked folkloric material into literary fairy tales (1869–1923)

===Middle East===
* [[Antoine Galland]], French translator of the [[Arabian Nights]] (France, 1646–1715)
* [[Gaston Maspero]], French translator of Egyptian and Middle Eastern folktales (France, 1846–1916)
* [[Hasan M. El-Shamy]], establisher of a catalogue classification of Arab and Middle Eastern folktales
* [[Amina Shah]], British anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales (1918–2014)
* [[Raphael Patai]], scholar of Jewish folklore (1910–1996)
* [[Howard Schwartz]], collector and publisher of Jewish folktales (1945–)
* {{ill|Heda Jason|de|Heda Jason}}, Israeli folklorist
* [[Dov Noy]], Israeli folklorist (1920–2013)

===Turkey===
* ''{{ill|Billur Köşk|tr|Billur Köşk Masalları}}'', compilation of Turkish Anatolian stories
* [[Ignác Kúnos]], Hungarian Turkologist and folklorist (1860-1845)
* [[Pertev Naili Boratav]], Turkish folklorist (1907–1998)
* ''[[Kaloghlan]]'' ([[Turkey]], 1923) by [[Ziya Gökalp]]

=== Iran ===
* [[Arthur Christensen]], German Iranist and publisher of Iranian folktales (1875–1945)
* [[Fazl'ollah Mohtadi Sobhi]], Iranian author and publisher of folktales (1897–1962)

===Indian Subcontinent===
* ''[[Panchatantra]]'' (India, 3rd century BC)
* ''[[Kathasaritsagara]]'', compilation of Indian folklore made by [[Somadeva]] in the 11th century CE
* ''[[Madanakamaraja Katha]]'', collection of South Indian folktales
* ''[[Burhi Aair Sadhu]]'', collection of Assamese folktales
* ''[[Thakurmar Jhuli]]'', collection of Bengali folktales
* [[Lal Behari Dey]], reverend and recorder of Bengali folktales (India, 1824–1892)
* [[James Hinton Knowles]], missionary and collector of [[Kashmir]]i folklore
* [[Maive Stokes]], Indian-born British author (1866–1961)
* [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s book of ''Indian Fairy Tales'' (1854–1916)
* [[Natesa Sastri]]'s collection of Tamil folklore (India) and translation of ''Madanakamaraja Katha''
* ''Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon'', three volumes by [[Henry Parker (author)|H. Parker]] (1910)
* Pandit [[Ram Gharib Chaube]] and British orientalist [[William Crooke]]
* [[Verrier Elwin]], ethographer and collector of Indian folk tales (1902–1964)
* [[A. K. Ramanujan]], poet and scholar of Indian literature (1929–1993)
* ''Santal Folk Tales'', three volumes by [[Paul Olaf Bodding]] (1925–29)
* [[Shobhanasundari Mukhopadhyay]] (1877–1937), Indian author and collector of folktales

===America===
* [[Marius Barbeau]], Canadian folklorist (Canada, 1883–1969)
* [[Geneviève Massignon]], scholar and publisher of French Acadian folklore (1921–1966)
* [[Carmen Roy]], Canadian folklorist (1919–2006)
* [[Joel Chandler Harris]]'s ''[[Uncle Remus]]'' series of books
* ''Tales from the Cloud Walking Country'', by Marie Campbell
* [[Ruth Ann Musick]], scholar of West Virginian folklore (1897–1974)
* [[Vance Randolph]], folklorist who studied the folklore of the [[Ozarks]] (1892–1980)
* ''Cuentos populares mexicanos'' (Mexico, 2014) by [[Fabio Morábito]]
* Rafael Rivero Oramas, collector of Venezuelan tales. Author of ''El mundo de Tío Conejo'', collection of Tío Tigre and Tío Conejo tales.
* [[Américo Paredes]], author specialized in folklore from Mexico and the Mexican-American border (1915–1999) 
* [[Elsie Clews Parsons]], American anthropologist and collector of folktales from Central American countries (New York City, 1875–1941)
* [[John Alden Mason]], American linguist and collector of Porto Rican folklore (1885–1967)
* [[Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa Sr.]], scholar of Spanish folklore (1880–1958)

===Brazil===
* [[Sílvio Romero]], Brazilian lawyer and folktale collector (Brazil, 1851–1914)
* [[Luís da Câmara Cascudo]], Brazilian anthropologist and ethnologist (Brazil, 1898–1986)
* {{interlanguage link|Lindolfo Gomes|pt}}, Brazilian folklorist (1875–1953)
* [[Marco Haurélio]], contemporary writer and folklorist, author of [[Contos e Fábulas do Brasil]] and [[Contos Folclóricos Brasileiros]].

===South Korea===
* [[Baek Hee-na]], author of "The Cloud Bread" (South Korea, 1971–)
* [[Hwang Seon-mi]], author of "Hen out of the yard" (South Korea, 1963–)

===Africa===
* [[Hans Stumme]], scholar and collector of North African folklore (1864–1936)
* [[Sigrid Schmidt]], folklorist; known for her voluminous ''Afrika erzählt'' ("Africa Narrates") series. The ten volumes are tales (with extensive commentary) collected by the author during 1959-1962 and  1972-1997 (volumes 1 to 7 in German, volumes 8 to 10 in English), mostly  in [[Namibia]].<ref>[https://www.koeppe.de/reihe_afrika-erzaehlt Afrika erzählt]</ref>

===Asia===
* [[Kunio Yanagita]] (Japan, 1875–1962)
* [[Seki Keigo]], Japanese folklorist
* [[Lafcadio Hearn]]
* [[Yei Theodora Ozaki]], translator of Japanese folk tales (1870–1932)
* [[Dean Fansler]], professor and scholar of Filipino folklore

===Miscellaneous===
* ''[[Mixed Up Fairy Tales]]''
* ''[[Fairy Tales (Cummings)|Fairy Tales]]'' (United States, 1965) by [[E. E. Cummings]]
* ''[[Fairy Tales, Now First Collected: To Which are Prefixed Two Dissertations: 1. On Pygmies. 2. On Fairies]]'' (England, 1831) by [[Joseph Ritson]]