Margaret Sayers Peden
columbia, mo
TRANSLATES: Spanish
Margaret Sayers Peden has translated 60 books by Spanish and Latin American authors, including Isabel Allende, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Octavio Paz.
She is a Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of Missouri and has received numerous awards and honors, among them the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club award for a translation published in 2003 and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1983 she was a Resident Scholar in Bellagio, Italy, and in 1998 she was honored with an homage from the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the American Literary Translators Association, and the University of Guadalajara for distinguished service to the arts.
She is a lifetime member of ALTA and an Honorary Fellow of the Hispanic Society of America.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Recent Bibliography:
Inez, translation of Carlos Fuentes’ El instinto de Inez (New York: Farrar, Straus, 2002)
City of the Beasts, a novel for young adults by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2002)
Casting Off, poems by Claribel Alegría (Willimantic: Curbstone, 2003)
My Invented Country, memoir by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2003)
Sepharad, a novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina (New York: Harcourt, 2003)
Story of a Seagull, children’s book by Luis Seplúlveda (New York: Scholastic, 2003)
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, novel for young adults by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2004)
Valley of the Pygmies, novel for young adults by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2005)
Zorro, a novel by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2005)
Captain Alatriste, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 2005)
Purity of Blood, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 2006)
Libro de horas/My Book of Hours, paintings and poems by Alfredo Castañeda, (Mexico City: Libros de la Espiral, 2006)
Valley of the Wolves, children’s book by Laura García Gallego (New York: Scholastic, 2006
Inés of My Soul, novel by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperColllins, 2007)
Sun Over Breda, novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (New York: Penguin-Putnam, 2007)
Painter of Battles, novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (New York: Penguin-Putnam, 2007)
The Sum of Our Days, memoir by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2008)
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me, selected poems of Cesar Vallejo (Penguin Classics, 2008)
La Celestina, novel by Fernando Rojas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
Island Beneath the Sea, novel by Isabel Allende (New York: HarperCollins, 2010)
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