Margaret Sayers Peden
Margaret Sayers Peden is a professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Missouri. She has translated sixty-five books, including works by Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Claribel Alegría, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Cesar Vallejo, and most recently Fernando Rojas’s 1499 Celestina. She has received the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Award, the Lewis Galantiere Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Missouri Center for the Book, and the PEN Ralph Manheim medal for translation.