NMLP P-004128 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Carlos Fuentes (trans. Sam Hileman) · Farrar, Straus & Company, New York · 1964

The true first edition is the Spanish 'La muerte de Artemio Cruz' (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 1962). The 1964 Farrar, Straus is the first English-language edition. A later Alfred MacAdam translation (1991) is a distinct new translation, not a reprint of the Hileman text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-004128 for "The Death of Artemio Cruz" by Carlos Fuentes (trans. Sam Hileman) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004128, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).