Author | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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Original title | La reina del sur |
Translator | Andrew Hurley |
Language | Spanish |
Publisher | Alfaguara |
Publication date | 2002 |
Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 7 June 2004 |
Pages | 542 |
ISBN | 9788420464350 |
The Queen of the South (Spanish: La reina del sur) is a 2002 novel by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It is about a Mexican woman, Teresa Mendoza , who ends up as an international drug lord.[1][2]
Telemundo produced a Spanish-language television series of the same name, based on the novel. With a budget of 10 million US dollars, it was Telemundo's most expensive TV series at the time of its premiere in 2011.[3] The second season was launched in April 2019. USA Network made an English-language adaptation for television, Queen of the South (2016–2021).[4]