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Brodie’s Report

On July 26, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
Brodie’s Report, including prose fictions from “In Praise of Darkness,” with a new afterword by the translator, Penguin UK, 2000; Penguin USA, 2005.
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Memory’s Tattoo

On February 4, 2005 By Andrew Hurley
Memory’s Tattoo (La piel de la memoria), a memoir by Antonio Martorell (Puerto Rico). San Juan: Plaza Mayor, February 2005. With a translator’s note by AH and foreword by Luis Rafael Sánchez (trans. AH). Translator’s note for Martorell’s Memory’s Tattoo (Plaza Mayor, 2005).
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Persona Non Grata: A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution

On September 5, 2004 By Andrew Hurley
Persona Non Grata (Persona non grata), a memoir by Jorge Edwards (Chile). New York: Paragon Books, 1993; Nation Books (Avalon), 2004.
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The Queen of the South

On September 4, 2004 By Andrew Hurley
  The Queen of the South, a novel by Arturo Pérez Reverte (Spain), New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, 2004.
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A Universal History of Iniquity

On July 27, 2004 By Andrew Hurley
A Universal History of Iniquity, with a new afterword by the translator, Penguin UK, 2001; Penguin USA, 2004.  
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The Aleph

On July 27, 2004 By Andrew Hurley
The Aleph and prose fictions from “The Maker,” with a new afterword by the translator, Penguin UK, 2000; Penguin USA, 2004.
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Thresholds: An Anthology of World Literature from the Heart of Texas

On September 4, 2003 By Andrew Hurley
“Preface,” Thresholds: An Anthology of World Literature from the Heart of Texas, Message in a Bottle Translators, Austin, TX: Pangloss Publishing, 2003.
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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies

On September 4, 2003 By Andrew Hurley
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de las Casas, with notes, glossary, and a translator’s note by Andrew Hurley, introduction by Franklin Knight (Johns Hopkins University), Boston: Hackett Publishers, 2003. Translator’s note for Bartolomé de las Casas’ An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies (Hackett, [...]
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This Is the Little Story of Tomás, a Big Elephant Who Wanted to Be a Wienie-Dog

On June 1, 2003 By Andrew Hurley
This Is the Little Story of Tomás, a Big Elephant Who Wanted to Be a Wienie-Dog, Myriam Yagnam, illus. Jorge Zeno, San Juan: Editorial Cordillera, 2003.
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No One Will See Me Cry

On March 1, 2003 By Andrew Hurley
  No One Will See Me Cry, a novel by Cristina Rivera-Garza (Mexico), winner of the 2003 Sor Juana Prize for Fiction, Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003.
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Home: A Celebration of Roberto Clemente’s Spirit and Passion

On September 6, 2002 By Andrew Hurley
Home: A Celebration of Roberto Clemente’s Spirit and Passion, catalog of the MAPR exhibit, texts by Elliott Castro,Carmen T. Ruiz de Fischler, Myrna López Mena, Luis Manuel Cuyar, San Juan: MAPR, 2002.
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Dear First Love

On August 4, 2002 By Andrew Hurley
Dear First Love, a novel by Zoé Valdés (Cuba/France), with a translator’s note by Andrew Hurley, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.
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Translating Borges from the Inside Out

On April 4, 2002 By Andrew Hurley
“Translating Borges from the Inside Out,” Potomac Review  26 (Spring 2000), pp. 37-44.
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San Juan siempre moderno: su arquitectura y su gente

On September 6, 2001 By Andrew Hurley
Four essays for San Juan siempre moderno: su arquitectura y su gente, ed. Enrique Vivoni Farage, San Juan, AACUPR, 2001: “The Center of Everything: Consumption, Architecture, and the City,” Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (13K words, 37 pp.). “The Invention of the Doorway into Paradise: Images, Architecture, and Context in the Development of Hotels in San Juan [...]
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raisonée

On September 6, 2001 By Andrew Hurley
Texts by Flavia Marichal and Antonio Martorell for the catalogue raisonée of the Lorenzo Homar exhibit of posters, Abrapalabra, UPR Museum of Art, Anthropology, and History, September 2001.
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Myrna Báez: An Artist and Her Mirrors

On September 6, 2001 By Andrew Hurley
Text for Myrna Báez: An Artist and Her Mirrors, San Juan: University of the Sacred Heart, 2001: “Myrna Báez: A Documented Life,” Margarita Fernández Zavala.
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Girafo: This is the story of a cat who learned to fly

On September 5, 2001 By Andrew Hurley
Girafo: This is the story of a cat who learned to fly. And before the story was over he flew all the way to the Moon, discovered he could understand owls, and took refreshing dips in the Milky Way, Myriam Yagnam Lara, illus. Jorge Zeno, San Juan: Sphere Press, 2001.
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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory

On September 5, 2001 By Andrew Hurley
  The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory, with a new afterword by the translator, Penguin UK, 2001.
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Five new critical afterwords for the individual volumes of Borges fictions published in the UK

On October 4, 2000 By Andrew Hurley
Five new critical afterwords for the individual volumes of Borges fictions published in the UK (Penguin UK) Fall 2000-Spring 2001: A Universal History of Iniquity, Fictions, The Aleph and Prose Fictions from The Maker, Brodie’s Report and Prose Fictions from In Praise of Darkness, and The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory.
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Fictions

On September 7, 2000 By Andrew Hurley
Fictions, with a new afterword by the translator, Penguin UK, 2000.
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