Andrew Hurley (academic)

Andrew Hurley is primarily known as an English translator of Spanish literature, having translated a variety of authors, most notably the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Now a retired professor, Hurley had served at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in the English Department. He obtained his doctorate in 1973 from Rice University (writing on narrative strategies and reader response in the theory of the novel).

Authors translated

• Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spain
• Rubén Darío (1867–1916) Nicaragua
• Jorge Luis Borges (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
• Ana Lydia Vega (1946–) Puerto Rico
• Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá (1946–) Puerto Rico
• Luce López-Baralt (19xy–) Puerto Rico
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951–) Spain
• Julia Navarro (1953–) Spain
• Zoé Valdés (1959–) Cuba
• Cristina Rivera-Garza (1964–) Mexico

External links

• Faculty Profile of Andrew Hurley