On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: Las Biuty Queens
Translator(s): Hannah Kauders
Author: Iván Monalisa Ojeda
Original work: Las biuty queens
Publisher: Astra House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781662600302
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whether she is struggling with… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: Leopard in the Sun
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: El leopardo al sol
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9780375705083
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped… read more

Title: Los muertos también hablan
Translator(s): R. A. Ramírez Báez
Author: R. A. Ramírez-Báez
Original work: Los muertos también hablan
Publisher: Editorial Sitel
City: Jackson Heights, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9780965874304
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A string of short stories of important and nonimportant people , who in a way, left strong messages to be herad from beyond their graves... Some are tender, others suggest well kept secrets that either written documents or… read more

Title: Luminous Cities
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Eduardo García Aguilar
Original work: Urbes luminosas
Publisher: Aliform
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765215
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Colombian writer Eduardo García Aguilar captures the unseen side of the metropolis, inviting us to join him in the great cities of the world, from Paris, Stockholm and Rome to Mexico City, Antigua and San Francisco, from the… read more

Title: New and selected stories
Translator(s): Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker, Francisca González-Arias, Lisa Dillman, Alex Ross
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project
City: St. Louis, MO
Year of Publication: 2022
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781948980098
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Winner of a 2020 MacArthur "genius" award for fiction that "interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective," Cristina Rivera Garza is a singular voice in contemporary… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Pedro Páramo
Translator(s): Douglas Weatherford
Author: Juan Rulfo
Original work: Pedro Páramo
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 129 pp.
ISBN: 9780802160935
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Romans

Title: Pepita Jimenez
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Pepita Jiménez
Publisher: Kessinger Pub.
City: Kila, MT
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781419140822
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The story is set in a small Andalusian town in Spain and revolves around the character of Luis de Vargas, a young seminarian who has recently returned to his hometown after studying in Madrid. Luis is struggling with his faith… read more

Title: Portrait of an Unknown Lady
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: María Gainza
Original work: La luz negra
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9781646220328
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she seems especially gifted at forging canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentine high society. But who… read more
Literary Genre: Romans

Title: Selected Poems
Translator(s): Alexander Coleman
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 483 pp.
ISBN: 9780140587210
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems, which makes it the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, and includes many works never previously translated. 
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Short Stories by Latin American Women : The Magic and the Real
Translator(s): Celia Correas de Zapata
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Modern Library
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9780812967074
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Stories of Life & Death = Historias de Vida y Muerte
Translator(s): Alan Grostephan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: SangFroid Press
City: Excelsior, MN
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 96 pp.
ISBN: 0917939018
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) These stories offer a rare and haunting glimpse of the fears, hopes, thoughts, and dreams of school children living in one of the western hemisphere's most violent and vibrant cultures. Featuring pieces written by students… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Tango for a Torturer
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Original work: El rojo en la pluma del loro
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354194
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student working the hotels with great charm and panache. Bianchi soon discovers through his… read more

Title: The Ballad of Johnny Sosa
Original work: La balada de Johnny Sosa
Publisher: Overlook Press
City: Woodstock, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781585672240
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Singing melancholic soul music in a small brothel bar in his provincial home town in Uruguay, Johnny Sosa dreams of a life beyond his confining world, but realizes the price of his dream when he attracts the attention of a local… read more

Title: The Battlefield of Your Body = El Campo de Batalla de Tu Cuerpo
Translator(s): Bessy Reyna
Author: Bessy Reyna
Original work: The Battlefield of Your Body = El Campo de Batalla de Tu Cuerpo
Publisher: Hill-Stead Museum
City: Farmington, CT
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 31 pp.
ISBN: 9780974424538

Title: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El caballero del jubón amarillo
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 9780452296503
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protege Inigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep the captain on retainer and - as a veteran with no other livelihood - he… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction

Title: The Flanders Panel
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: La tabla de Flandes
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 294 pp.
ISBN: 0156029588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Julia is cleaning a 15th century Flemish painting, in a corner she finds the words: "Who killed the knight?" As she investigates the mystery, she becomes mixed up with several late 20th century unscrupulous characters.
Literary Genre: Romances, Spanish fiction

Title: The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda
Translator(s): Dick Cluster, Marina Harss, Mark Schafer, Alan West-Durán
Author: Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Original work: Las historias prohibidas de Marta Veneranda
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9781583220474
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The neighborhood is talking. One by one, Marta Veneranda's friends - and strangers - begin to unburden themselves of their most guarded secrets. The whispered confessions weave a tapestry of broken taboos and twisted expectations… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romans, Nouvelles, Short stories

Title: The House of the Spirits
Translator(s): Magda Bogin
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: La casa de los espíritus
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 368 pp.
ISBN: 0394539079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Trueba family embodies strong feelings from the beginning of the 2 through the assassination of Allende in 1973.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Epic fiction, Domestic ficiton, Romans épiques

Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El plan infinito
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780061976827
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. As he journeys from the Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles to the killing fields of… read more

Title: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Borders Classics
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781587260773
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The adventures of the intrepid knight Don Quixote and his humble squire Sancho Panza.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction