Margaret Sayers Peden

Missouri County: Boone

Genre: Essays, Textbooks, Visual/Performing Arts, Translations from Spanish to English

Audience: Adult

Published Works:

Emilio Carballido, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980; The Latin American Short Story, A Critical History, ed. Twayne's Critical History of the Short Story Series, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1983; Out of the Volcano: Portraits of Contemporary Artists (with photographer, Carole Patterson), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991

TRANSLATIONS: The Norther by Emilio Carballido, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968; The Golden Thread and Other Plays by Emilio Carballido, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1970; Paper Flowers by Egon Wolff, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1971; The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976, paperback, 1984; The Siren and the Seashell (with Lysander Kemp) essays by Octavio Paz, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976; Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, paperback, 1984; Nina Huanca by Faustino Gonzalez Aller, NY: Viking, 1977; The Hydra Head by Carlos Fuentes, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980, paperback, 1986; Burnt Water short stories by Carlos Fuentes, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980, paperback 1986; Woman of Genius, the Intellectual Autobiography of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, 1982 (art book and paperback), third ed 1987, included in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, fifth continental ed, 1987; Distant Relations by Carlos Fuentes, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982, paperback, 1984; Passions and Impressions by Pablo Neruda, NY: Farrar & Giroux, 1983, paperback 1984; The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985, paperback 1984; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Poems, Binghamton, NY: Bilingual Press, 1985; Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende, NY: Knopf, 1987; Ariel, philosophical essay by Jose Enrique Rodo (prologue by James W. Symington, intor by Carlos Fuentes), Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988; The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato, NY: Ballantine Books, 1988; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz or The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988; Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, NY: Knopf, 1988; Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse, NY: Atheneum, 1990; Elemental Odes by Pablo Neruda, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990; The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, NY: Atheneum, 1991; The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende, NY: Harper Collins, 1993; Martin Chambi, Peruvian photographer (foreward by Mario Vargas Llosa), Washinton, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993; An Ark for the Nex Millenium by Jose Emilio Pacheco with drawings by Francisco Toledo, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993; Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, Grove-Atlantic, 1994; Song of the Heart by Ramon Lopez Velarde with drawings by Juan Soriano, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1994; Paula by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 1995;  Senora Honeycomb,"   by Fanny Buitrago, HarperCollins, 1996;  The Law of Love, by Laura Esquivel, Doubleday, 1996;  Poems, Protest, and a Dream, by Sor Juana, with Woman of Genius and Selected Poems VikingPenguin, 1996;  Lovesick, by Angeles Mastretta, Riverhead, 1997;  Rip Out His Heart, by Angeles Mastretta, Riverhead, 1997;  Cristina!, by Cristina Saralegui, Warner Books, 1998;  Aphrodite, by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 1998;  Daughter of Fourtune, by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 1999;  Antigua, and My Life Before, by Marcela Serrano's, Doubleday, 1999;  Daughter of Fourtune, by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 2000; Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 2001; The Nautical Chart, by Arturo Perez Reverte, Harcourt, 2001; Inez, by Carlos Feuntes, Farrar, Straus & Girous, 2002; City of the Beasts, by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 2002; Casting Off,/Soltando Amarras, Claribel Alegria, Curbstone, 2003; My Invented Country, by Isabel Allende, HarperCollins, 2003; Story of a Gull. . . , by Luis Sepulveda, Scholastic, 2003; Sepharad, by Antonio Munoz Molina, Harcourt, 2003; Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, novel for young adults by Isabel Allende, 2004; Valley of the Pygmies, novel for young adults by Isabel Allende, 2005; Zorro, a novel by Isabel Allende, 2005; Captain Alatriste, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Penguin, 2005; Purity of Blood, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Putnam,2006; Libro de horas/ My Book of Hours, paintings and poems by Alfredo Castañeda, Libros de la Espiral, 2006.

Awards:

The Byler Distinguished Professor Award, 1976; Fellowship of the American Association of University Women, 1978 79; Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Romance Languages, 1979; National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, 1981; Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Missouri Alumni Association, 1981; Alumnae Award of Distinction,William Woods College, 1982; Purple ChalkAward, College of Arts & Science, 1983; Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy February, 1983; The University of Missouri Presidential Award for Research, 1985; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1985- 86; matching funds, The Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, Center for Inter American Relations Elected Corresponding Member, The Hispanic Society of America 1986; Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Art & Science, 1987; Exemplary service in Advancing the Status of Women, UMC Office of Equal Opportunity, April 23, 1987; National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, 1988; Grant support from the Friends of Mexican Culture,1989- 90; Sesquicentennial Professor, UMC, 1990; Gregory Kolovakos Award from PEN, May 1992; (co recipient) Honorary Life Membership, the American Literary Translators Association,November, 1994; Homenaje offered by FIL (Feria Internacional del Libro), ALTA, and La Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, December 1998; Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Hispanic Society of America December 11, 2001; The P.E.N. Book-of-the-Month Club award for a translation published in 2003, May 2004.

Have any works been translated into other languages? Yes and also write in other languages.

Contact Information:

603 Rollins Court, Columbia, Missouri 65203

This file was updated on April 15, 1999.
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