Margaret ("Petch")[1][2][3] Sayers Peden (May 10, 1927 – July 5, 2020) was an American translator and professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Missouri.
[4][5] After finishing her studies at the University of Missouri, Peden joined the Romance Languages Department, where she taught until her retirement.
[6] Peden's work covers nearly every genre — poetry, novel, theater and belles lettres — from the 16th century to today.
[8] In 2012, she received the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation from the PEN American Center.
[10] She married first, in 1949, Robert Jackson Norwine (1924-2018), a real estate broker and dean of students at the New College of Florida from 1965 to 1967, with whom she had a son, Kyle, and daughter, Kerry.