Andrew Hurley is an American academic and translator. He is primarily known as an English-language

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

of Spanish literature, having translated a variety of authors, most notably the

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

writer

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

. He has published over 30 book-length translations. Hurley obtained his doctorate in 1973 from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comp ...

, with a thesis on narrative strategies and reader response in the theory of the

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. He taught in the English Department of the Universidad de Puerto Rico and was named

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in 2009.

Authors translated

Bartolomé de las Casas Bartolomé de las Casas, Dominican Order, OP ( ; ); 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became ...

(1474–1566) Spain *

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as '' modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

(1867–1916) Nicaragua *

(1899–1986) Argentina * Ernesto Sabato (1911–2011) Argentina * Margo Glantz (1930–) Mexico * Heberto Padilla (1932–2000) Cuba * Armando Valladares (1937–) Cuba * Antonio Martorell (1939–) Puerto Rico * Gustavo Sáinz (1940–) Mexico * Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuba * Luce López-Baralt (1944–) Puerto Rico * Ana Lydia Vega (1946–) Puerto Rico * Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá (1946–) Puerto Rico * Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951–) Spain * Julia Navarro (1953–) Spain * Zoé Valdés (1959–) Cuba * Cristina Rivera Garza (1964–) Mexico

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Faculty Profile of Andrew Hurley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurley, Andrew Living people Puerto Rican academics Spanish–English translators University of Puerto Rico faculty Rice University alumni Translators of Jorge Luis Borges 20th-century American translators Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American translators