Margaret Sayers Peden
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Margaret Sayers Peden is an American
United States
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 translator and Professor, being a Missouri
Missouri
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 native and born in about 1920.

Career and Achievements

She returned to college to obtain her graduate degrees in later life. Her PhD is from the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
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, where she remained as a Professor, teaching Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, Spanish American literature
Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...

, and Translation
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

 and Interpretation at UMC
UMC
-Organizations:* Ukrainian Mobile Communications* United Methodist Church* United Microelectronics Corporation* University of Minnesota Crookston* University of Mississippi Medical Center...

 for several decades. She is currently Professor Emeritus.

One of the leading translators of her time, Peden has translated more than 40 books and has won numerous prizes and grants. In 2007, she collected a variety of Mexican literature to combine and edit the book Mexican Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press). She continues to reside in Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
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, Missouri, and can be reached through the Department of Romance Languages at UMC.
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